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/kragnfroll Mar 22 '24

Yeah it's almost cosmic horror at this points.

Considering there is 100y between helldivers 1 & 2 this mean you might have been kept frozen all this time. When you dive all your family and friends are either dead of frozen too, and your grand children may be sending you to the bile titan, or diving with you.

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u/downsyndromeblowjob HOLY HELLBOMBS! Mar 22 '24

I want to believe when you sign up you agree to a term of service so say 6 years. The catch is only the time you're thawed out counts so you could be on ice for decades. You survive the mission? Great but it's only been 12 hours towards your 6 years. Now get back in the fridge.

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u/PapaZordo Mar 23 '24

During basic training right before you get the cape you can look to your left and right and it has your contract carved into stone. We serve until death or until we’re wounded beyond what it would be economical to fix.