The question I have with Bravern after last week's events is now "what are the Deathdrives, exactly?" Because the name seems to me like a clear reference to Freud:
>In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiveness.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_driveIt's not exactly the same, but Cupiridas wanted to be given a proper death with a cool explosion, Knuth tells Smith her wish is to "make love" with him while he finds this strange, fulfilled through their deaths, and Superbia begins to meditate about his role on the conflict after seeing his Lulu has changed so much though that may be a different thing. It doesn't seem to me like they simply want to conquer Earth. And seeing as
Smithvern managed to travel back in time, maybe the Deathdrives have done the same thing? They appeared from nowhere straight out of a portal.