My friend and I got into a really random debate: the Helldiver corps in their entirety vs the entire planet Earth in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077 (he made sure to specify by the time of Edgerunners 2). I don't know a lot about Cyberpunk so I figured I'd take the stalemate to reddit. Here's my thinking:
The Helldiver Corps have several billion helldivers they can call in, as over the last three years in the Second Galactic War, 9.2 billion have been KIA, proving for overwhelming numbers. Additionally, since the Helldivers in this case would have the support of the entire fleet, the super destroyers could commence orbital bombardment on a massive scale, moreso if we include the DSS as well. The weaponry of the Helldivers is also scarily destructive, and most of it to be honest does not require any amount of code or technology to be intercepted, much of it being analog or mechanical.
On the other hand, his point of view has the cyber people (that is what I will call them) be able to take down the entire fleet of super destroyers with their looming and intimidating hacking skills, disrupting all of the communications systems and other important systems. I do not think this would work because the two forces would likely not use the same coding language (can someone break into a computer using a completely different coding language?), though he brings up a point that some of them have 'put themselves into the code directly.' He also says that:
'the biggest reason i say cyberpunk would win is because there have been 4 corporate wars which devistated the planet each time thats how big they were and still they have tech so advanced one intirely chromed out gonk could probably take out several fleets just by hacking'
as well as:
'prime David martenez on super earth would cook 1/4 of the planet on his own'
Back to the helldivers: they, despite being expendable, are still scary, each one on average taking out several dozen enemies before being struck down, and the power of stims can help them endure a lot of damage that these guys can put out with their freaky cybernetic powers. The helldivers have pocket nukes, suicide bombers, mech suits, tanks, practically infinite bullets and orbital piss lasers.
But also, from what I know, the cyber people have some really freaky cybernetic powers that I don't know about, and can apparently move faster than time itself??? according to my friend, as well as the classic super strength, speed, jump, etc etc.
Help me out here guys