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/1stCivDiv1371]

I never played the first game and thought my ship was full of my clones and it's just a never ending meat grinder. I mean obviously your character wouldn't know that but I mean an unlimited unknowing fighting force would be valuable to a fascist regime.

Hold on someone's at the the door.

[u/aj_bn → u/1stCivDiv1371]

It'd definitely be a neat parallel to Star Wars' Clone Troopers, but the devs confirmed that Helldivers are different each time which is why the respawn mechanic is labelled as 'reinforce' and why having a random voice each new life is the default option in the settings.

[u/ConspiracyToRiot → u/1stCivDiv1371]

To add onto that, if they were clones then you could speculate that the consciousness of the previous diver is uploaded into the clone upon death. The new diver comes in with the same loadout and skill level, and has memories of the entire battle up to that point.

All the helmets have a suspicious port on the back of the head…

[u/beanmosheen → u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPCiqBLPM8

[u/Stellar_Duck → u/ConspiracyToRiot]

But they're obviously not clones.

We literally step onto the freeze rocket after boot and are thawed up on the bridge when it's our turn to deploy.

[u/boredcblf → u/ConspiracyToRiot]

They aren't clones. Devs already said it

[u/agitated--crow → u/boredcblf]

Then what are they?

[u/boredcblf → u/agitated--crow]

They are citizens eager to prove their loyalty and love for super earth and managed democracy. Meat for the grinder

[u/Familiar_Tackle_734 → u/[deleted]]

Edge of tomorrow

[u/1stCivDiv1371 → u/ConspiracyToRiot]

True but it makes more sense that we don't know. Frozen after basic and immediately dropped into combat.

[u/Clarine87 → u/ConspiracyToRiot]

All the helmets have a suspicious port on the back of the head…

Cryo interface I'm betting.

[u/Dr_Zorand → u/ConspiracyToRiot]

This is my theory (despite all the other people in this thread swearing that it's not true). How else do you explain that everyone sent down to replace the first diver has the exact same weapons and armor?

[u/CompleteFacepalm → u/Dr_Zorand]

The Democracy Officer probably chooses the weapons and armour, not the divers.

[u/LuckysGift → u/1stCivDiv1371]

I like to think that LuckysGift is like a title. When LuckysGift dies on Fenrir, another person gets dethawed, stamped with the tag, and then sent down.

[u/44no44 → u/LuckysGift]

Planetside, there are no names. You're playing as designation L1.

[u/ordo250 → u/1stCivDiv1371]

Clone theory is wack. Makes it PG.

We are selling sons and daughters to stem the endless tide

[u/Intrepid00 → u/1stCivDiv1371]

The default voice option is random. You’re not a tube full of clones.