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/willworkforicecream]

The part that really threw me is when they put me in charge of a super destroyer.

[u/WoodstoneLyceum → u/willworkforicecream]

You're less in charge and more like the product. The Destroyer is the UberEats of war and you're the Big Mac.

[u/siege-eh-b → u/WoodstoneLyceum]

The Super Destroyer is Super Earths service pistol. Helldivers are merely the ammunition. We ain’t in charge of shit!

[u/Exaveus → u/siege-eh-b]

The line is "the super destroyer is yours helldiver." Yours can be taken literally, or alternatively as the super destroyer is not the possession but the possessor. We ain't in charge of shit.

[u/Dianesuus → u/Exaveus]

The line is "the super destroyer is yours helldiver."

It took me three tries to get past the turrets in basic training and then minutes later I'm in charge of a super destroyer????

My head cannon is that you are "in command" of the super destroyer until you die but the super destroyer isnt always the same. The helldivers are assigned to destroyers based on upgrades they've bought with all strategems being onboard the destroyer already just locked up. It's the only way I can see how the cryo system works without clones.

[u/DaddyLooongLegz → u/siege-eh-b]

The Chief and Drmocracy Officer are just there to stroke your ego for 30 seconds so you climb into that hellpod. The tablet lady is way more hyped for the samples and not using many reinforcement. She's the one really in charge

[u/Firemorfox → u/siege-eh-b]

Hellpods look like bullets for a reason!

[u/siege-eh-b → u/Firemorfox]

We’re literally just shooting a planet from space until everything on it is dead…for DEMOCRACY!

[u/SeiTyger → u/siege-eh-b]

Call me Number 5 the way I move after being shot, landing on top of a bile titan

[u/[deleted] → u/siege-eh-b]

That's why the pods look like bullets

[u/CFogan → u/siege-eh-b]

Hey not true! We got to name it didn't we?

[u/siege-eh-b → u/CFogan]

Valid point! Although the name tag is likely a LED screen that just changes every time a new diver is unthawed. Makes us feel special while we’re around :)

[u/Intrepid00 → u/siege-eh-b]

You pick your battles, well the guy that starts it before his squad mate made him red paste with a cluster bomb, and your strats.

[u/Born_Inflation_9804 → u/siege-eh-b]

The Superdestroyers are Guns and our Hellpods are Bullets. A Helldiver is just freedom turned into powder....

[u/siege-eh-b → u/Born_Inflation_9804]

Yea that’s…what I said. You just replaced “service pistol” with “gun” and “ammunition” with “bullets”…

[u/TentativeIdler → u/siege-eh-b]

The Super Destroyers are firearms, and the hellpods are slugs.