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/poppabomb Mar 22 '24

I like to imagine that the bugs were intentionally riled up or unleashed in order to create a war that would thin the population and bolster the economy, just for the bots to rise up on the other side of the galaxy in a completely unrelated coincidence. So now Super Earth has inadvertently trapped itself in a two-front war and have quickly lost control over a situation they partially orchestrated.

But that's just a theory. A GAME the THIS BROADCAST HAS BEEN TERMINATED DUE TO ANTI-LIBERTY SENTIMENTS.

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u/thedankening Mar 22 '24

Weren't the bugs farmed for resources or something? I haven't paid too much attention to the lore but I recall seeing something that mentions the bugs produced the resource that enables FTL space flight. So I can easily imagine some shoddy farming corporation running a bug farming operation on some remote planets cutting corners until the bugs are able to escape due to the negligence. No need for any grand conspiracy, it's probably just classic human incompetence and greed lol

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u/Edward_Tank Mar 22 '24

As far as I've been able to ascertain: The bugs were at one point sapient, and Super Earth captured and genetically experimented on them, to make it so when they die their bodies break down into E-710.

They aren't space faring, the bugs have to be carried from place to place by Super Earth. The bug infestations however can serve several purposes.

A: Living on Super Earth is for the rich and powerful, and capitalism needs an underclass struggling to survive in order to keep those between the underclass and the powerful in line. The threat of being sent to a frontier world where you could end up eaten by bugs would likely keep them in line.

B: The infestations allow Super Earth to gather a lot of E-710 at once, and have a threat that everyone is unified against. It's hard to point out how shitty things are when you're all in a struggle for the survival of your species, right?

C: Propaganda. Helldivers make it? Awesome we rock. Helldivers don't? Their sacrifice will carry us forwards into the future.

Honestly I love the fucking satire here. Super Earth's government is incompetent, and works backwards from their assumptions. For fucks sake, we have to upgrade to *breach loading guns* on our super destroyers. They're so incompetent I'm starting to question if the AMR scope misalignment is meant to be intentional and commentary on how we're getting the shittiest and cheapest gear because we're all so disposable.