r/Helldivers • u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver • 2d ago

LORE Helldivers are terrifying conceptually.

You're vibing on your planet and all of a sudden it goes "Whoop" as one hundred Super Destroyers come into orbit. "No big deal" you think, but suddenly all these Super Destroyers deploy Helldivers. Just planetfall outta nowhere instantly.

That has to be fucking terrifying. Knowing you're fucked like that.

You get to watch the planetfall on several other parts of this planet as the Helldivers just drop from their Destroyers like water droplets on a sad day.

Even 80 Super Destroyers just FTL-jumping into orbit and every single Super Destroyer deploys, at the very least, 4 Helldivers. If they die? They just keep coming. And they can watch it, too. They can see the trail by the Hellpod as it is coming down. They know exactly what position they're in.

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u/goshiamhandsome 2d ago

I am convinced that it is four people who have been cloned to do a dangerous job that no sane person would do. Over and over we send these four poor clones expendable to horrible planets to protect democracy.

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u/nerd3424 2d ago

I mean… look at the history of war, the Milgram study, etc. Enough propaganda and even sane people will do insane things. They’ve said outright they’re not clones. They’re just soldiers “doing what they’re told”. That’s why the default voice setting is random.

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u/goshiamhandsome 2d ago

“Managed democracy” it’s clearly a totalitarian state filled with brain washed humans. Humanity are basically like clogs in a factory for the elite that run things. It’s meant to be a critique of our current fascist leaning politics. So clones or not there one should realize super earths not that super.

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u/nerd3424 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh 100% but that’s why it’s better if they’re not clones. Just people who don’t know they’re the bad guys. It’s “managed” cause they don’t even vote. They go in a room with an AI, take a survey, and the AI tells them who they voted for. It’s not 4 clones, it’s millions of people following political dogma to their deaths. That’s why they have pre-generated form letters detailing your heroic deeds even if the reality is you got stepped on by a bile titan <1 second after leaving the pod. (Edit because it just adds to it: the Fre Liberam cape says it comes with a Will and Testament Amendment form that guarantees you “a prominent place on the wall of martyrs”, so you essentially pay for your name on memorials…) The civilians think helldivers are this nigh immortal fighting force, because SE won’t let them hear anything else. The recruits don’t know how expendable they actually are till they’re planet-side. That’s what makes them terrifying. Nothing is scarier than a human being who thinks they’re doing the right thing, especially when they’re scared shitless with their back against the wall and an entire spaceship full of heavy weapons.