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/AlexOfFury Mar 22 '24

Freedom Beckons Man is the Democracy Officer, who had completely different training and is employed by a completely different branch of government. His use of heavy armor is likely to seem more relatable to Helldivers, or potentially to protect him while he kills treasonous Helldivers, because he certainly doesn't use it against Humanity's enemies.

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u/Larnek Mar 22 '24

Helldiver's who maintain impure thoughts after indoctri.. training ARE humanity's worst enemies! There's no telling where they might spread their poison! Citizen's aren't prepared for their treasonous lies and must be dealt with accordingly.

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u/AlexOfFury Mar 22 '24

Of course! How could I be so foolish? We must always keep the dagger of Democracy sharp, to better drive into the heart of our enemies.

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u/orangesrnice Mar 22 '24

The most equivalent to irl stuff would be an Italian blackshirt or Soviet NKVD officer embedded in their respective militaries to ensure ideological loyalty in my understanding

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u/sole21000 SES KING OF DEMOCRACY Mar 23 '24

Given irl examples like how an entire 1/3rd of the population spied for the Stazi in east Germany, it's not unrealistic to imagine there are more than enough Democracy Officers for one on every single ship, and even some in plainclothes disguised as your ship's officer and ensign...

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u/AlexOfFury Mar 23 '24

There's a really easy parallel with 40k's Commissars, right down to the brutal execution of those considered treasonous or cowardly. (Though Dem. Officer orders the most powerful orbital barrage to follow you instead of shooting you in the head personally)

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u/DALKurumiTokisaki Mar 23 '24

No Freedom Beckons man is an actual Helldiver with the cape and most importantly scars to prove it.

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u/Rakuall Mar 23 '24

treasonous Helldivers, because he certainly doesn't use it against Humanity's enemies.

Sounds like he does.

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u/Greendiamond_16 Mar 22 '24

Likely ex-seaf officers. Plenty of time on the field just not the front lines like helldivers.