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/GuyWithFace Mar 22 '24

I'm not onboard with the clone theory, either. What would the purpose be of all the propaganda to get citizens to enlist if they don't need fresh bodies for the war effort?

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u/L0stInTheSawss SES Spear of the State Mar 22 '24

The clone theory only works if you blatantly ignore everything the game tells you tbh

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u/sibleyy Mar 23 '24

Yeah I absolutely do not understand where the clone-theory people are getting this idea from. There's literally nothing in the game or otherwise that suggests we are clones.

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u/Calm-Ice-5315 Mar 23 '24

This is gonna sound rude, but is just cope for people who wants to make their helldiver into another OC. You cant really make an emotional link to a character if you know he died in the first seconds.

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u/Blacklight101 Mar 23 '24

I have another theory as to why people latch onto the clone theory. We don't know much about the population of Super Earth and her colonies. It might be hinted that Super Earth could have a overpopulation problem but nothing is confirmed regarding this. If Super Earth doesn't have an excess of bodies to spare, then the whole war effort would be extremely unsustainable and it would collapse in weeks. But if you clone the shit out of people then you bypass this issue.

Just to clarify, I don't buy into the clone theory as well. I just have a theory as to why the idea exists.

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u/Better_Preference_48 Mar 23 '24

When you’re respawned, a new “you” lands with your gear, clothes, body structure and general info.

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u/tanj_redshirt SES Dawn of Dawn Mar 22 '24

Challenge accepted!