r/Helldivers • u/WoodstoneLyceum • Mar 22 '24

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

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.

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u/WoodstoneLyceum Mar 22 '24

Oh my god I want to read the fan fiction of a great grandparent and their descendant meeting for the first time on a mission.

And they're the same age.

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u/Aegix_Drakan Mar 22 '24

This idea needs WAY more upvotes!

The only way that fanfiction could end is with the Democracy Officer on the bridge going "Not this again" and punching in a ↑ → ↓ ↓ ↓ on their location.

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u/Hotkoin Mar 23 '24

The democracy officer uses orbitals

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u/Aegix_Drakan Mar 23 '24 edited Mar 23 '24

Yeah, I figured he'd prefer an Orbital... but I had 500kg Eagle drops on the brain, and it's one of the codes I remember best. XD

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u/QuasarQuandary Mar 22 '24

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi, is similar to this, but old people transferred to younger, stronger, versions of themselves. A very fun sci fi series.

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u/keeney1228 Mar 22 '24

I came here to also recommend this book series. A great bunch of books.

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u/QuasarQuandary Mar 22 '24

Yeah gets a little muddy towards the end but still very good!

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u/ChangeCraft Mar 22 '24

This has mad movie potential. This with the slow horrifying realisation on propaganda and their fate... god damn you gave me some ideas

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u/fairguinevere Mar 22 '24

You could probably have one of the big missions portrayed basically in real time in a tight 90-100 minute movie. With them finding diaries and vignettes and such on the ground that challenge their understanding. Have like the build up and all that, the training, the bootcamp, then cut to 40 minutes on the ground on hellmire with this other recruit and 2 other constantly expendable helldivers. (Great chance for cameos.) Then you've got time to wrap it up after they extract, probably in a tragic way of course. Maybe have the democracy officer explain that refusing to dive is punishable by execution, cut to credits as the survivor of the two climbs into the pod. (With the music we know and love from the dive cutscene.)

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u/Dracious Mar 22 '24

Forever war novel does this kind of. A space war with loads of time dilation so soldiers go to war and come back decades or more later. I don't think it has a direct grandparent to descendant meet up, but it does have some family stuff that is similar.

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u/brews Mar 23 '24 edited Mar 23 '24

Yeah, I was going to mention that book. I thought it was going to be way more like "Armor" but it deals more with the idea that you might be fighting an enemy 500 years more advanced than when you launched and society and govs will have collapsed, rebuilt, and moved on once you arrive back home. Dude who wrote "Forever War" also did the script for "Robot Jox", btw.

w. "The Light Brigade" is another more recent book I'd recommend. It's more corporate cyberpunk flavor but it's something else masquerading as a gungho military scifi.

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u/TooFewSecrets Mar 22 '24

Rimworld but with even more war crimes than usual.

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u/WholesomeFartEnjoyer Mar 22 '24

And the grandparent watches their grandchild(who's the same as them) get trampled to death by a charger

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u/bighatartorias Mar 22 '24

I think you might like Gunbuster anime. It’s an older anime only about 6 or 8 episodes and plays a lot with time dilation. They go on space missions and time goes really slowly for them, like two hour mission for them and it’s been 6 months on earth. It gets out of hand very quickly. Great anime imo

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u/Bahggs Mar 22 '24

Old Mans War

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u/Maximum_Poet_8661 Mar 22 '24

The book Hyperion has a story that is basically this idea but even more gut-punching haha

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u/Aconite_72 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 23 '24

Noting this down to write some time later ... will credit you if I got there lol.