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Honestly the funniest thing I've seen in the game so far lmao

Someone on the dev team is cool

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not well steeped in the lore, but basically humans created the "automatons" forebears, can't remember their names, and when they developed sentience, they declared independence and created a socialist state, which kicked off a big war.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

From getting some tiktoks of Helldivers 1 lore, the Cyborgs are the precursor to the Automatons and have basically been entombed on Cyberstan (lmao), which is where they sought to be a free, independent socialist society of augmented humans and any others rejecting the fascism of Super Earth.

Helldivers 2 is apparently 100 years after, and there's suspicions that the Automatons aren't just a collective of killing machines making a beeline towards Super Earth - the forcibly-augmented/fully robotic have some level of sentience and are apparently mounting a liberation campaign on Cyberstan by travelling around the periphery.

also apparently the bugs literally produce oil and were bred for this purpose lmao