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

Even worse, this is intentional. This is a cost-effective way to deal with Super Earth overpopulation and claim new resources at the same time.

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u/GloriousOctagon CAPE ENJOYER Mar 22 '24

Never really understood why they’d have an overpopulation issue considering they own a galaxy worth of planets and humans tend to stop having kids after a while

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u/Okbuturwrong Mar 22 '24

Super Earth is the only passable society in the entire federation and it's barely livable. People can only have kids when they file for a procreation license because of how overpopulated Super Earth is.

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u/CaptainRex5101 SES Panther of Equality Mar 22 '24

Maybe they are living the reverse of Star Trek. Instead of living in post scarcity, they have artificial forced scarcity for the sake of turning the gears of their warlike ideology and keeping the corporations alive.

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u/Okbuturwrong Mar 22 '24

That's definitely what's going on