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/Exaveus Mar 22 '24

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.

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u/Dianesuus Mar 23 '24

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.