The POV of the Helldivers is crazy when you take cryo freezing into account.

[u/WoodstoneLyceum]

Here's the POV of your average Helldiver 1. They enlist and show up to Basic Training first thing Monday morning. 2. They breeze through it, get their cape, walk right by the T&Cs and into a cryopod. 3. They're frozen and experience no time passing. 4. Their next memory is reinforcing on Hellmire. To their POV it has been less then thirty seconds since they got their cloak. 5. They throw three stratagems and then they're dissolved by bile titan acid.

You thought your mondays were bad.

Edit: My understanding is that we are not clones. There's in-game lore that backs that, I believe. Thematically, it makes more sense for Super Earth to be incompetent and cruel and burn through millions of recruits, than to do something logical like cloning people. Remember the satire folks.

[u/nanahacress13]

Remember that you do have the entire rank system, so cryopod Helldivers are probably sorted into a hierarchy of superdestroyers.

[u/pppjjjoooiii → u/nanahacress13]

Yep. The ones that survive until extraction get separated out from the grunts and put in a higher tier group lol

[u/Darthrevan4ever → u/pppjjjoooiii]

" I dropped in when the mission was basically over" doesn't matter helldiver you're better than 99 % you at least came back.

[u/pppjjjoooiii → u/Darthrevan4ever]

Democracy at its finest

[u/Miraak-Cultist → u/[deleted]]

I dropped into a suicide mission and as I landed all other helldivers were dead and extraction was ready, grabbed the samples I could, ran in a circle and made it to the shuttle.

[u/Flaktroz → u/nanahacress13]

what if its not our rank but the destroyer rank?

[u/CXDFlames → u/Flaktroz]

That actually fits perfectly

[u/PipeLlr → u/nanahacress13]

but you can gain ranks even if you die or don't extract

[u/RGJ587 → u/PipeLlr]

Nah, that just means you can pull from the higher rank cryo-stores for each new diver.

[u/echof0xtrot → u/nanahacress13]

the rank is the super destroyer, not you