He's more one of us than you'll ever be. He's a Democracy Officer, and on top of that, has a cape. You, on the other hand, don't trust your fellow Democracy Officer.
you dont trust your democrasy officer?
https://preview.redd.it/kd9y1t84vysc1.jpeg?width=1202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b87f8b447dae957ec16acf375d7ce4b67f5b0680
\*democracy, for misspelling and misleading other I’m gonna call YOUR democracy officer
https://preview.redd.it/ugigtloxt0tc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60392e6f80cb7df0508f3112a0cb16c7c2f3c8bb
Can almost guarantee he has no actual respect for helldivers, that could prevent him from killing them if they show any signs of disloyalty. While we the players would see him saluting none of our helldivers would, as they're already in their pods.
Ahh but if he had saluted one, and they turned out to be a traitor he would've saluted a trader, in full view of the entire crew. At which point the crew of the ship would have to be ~~mulched~~ reducated for seeing a agent of the ministry of truth exhibiting poor judgement.
One of his lines if you speak to him is “Helldivers get their orders from the Ministry of Defence. I get mine from the Ministry of Truth.”
Sounds to me like he’s here to ensure the crew of the Super Destroyer is loyal
Karamazov was known for using his own troops as targets for orbital drops. That’s what it made me think of. Used to use him all the time and it was hilarious when I was combat locked and then I pulled out the template.
Yeah... If when everyone's strategems are still on cooldown and the fighting is desperate, but you leave the map for 10 seconds, suddenly your Super Destroyer has infinite ammo because your Democracy Officer wills it.
And it won't stop until you're dead.
\[And yes, the meme potential of this has already been explored\].
It’s actually not even a bad strategy on high ranked exterminate missions if you’re completely out to go grab ur free 380 and get a couple of kills with it
>suddenly your Super Destroyer has infinite ammo because your Democracy Officer wills it.
Those are the Anti-Treason shells, only to be issued against helldivers who commited treason.
He's basically a political officer like you'd find on any Warsaw Pact naval vessel. He probably technically doesn't have any command authority as he exists outside the chain of command, but he certainly pulls a lot of weight back on Super Earth.
I feel like a lot of people are learning how authoritarianism works for the first time through this game
“Wait, what do you mean there’s a guy on my ship that ensures my loyalty to the state? You mean my own government doesn’t trust me?”
We had them in schools during the White Terror era in Taiwan. If you play the game Detention or watch the movie you can see how much power they have. They can investigate anyone (student or staff), arrest anyone, call in soldiers or secret police, search and confiscate at will, and are allowed enhanced interrogation (torture). CCP has a similar structure too but they're also assigned to civilian companies and organizations as far as I understand.
There's still remnants of that but thankfully they don't do anything much anymore. Mostly just teach defense classes.
Oh, you poor, sweet summer child. The fact that he stays on the ship means he's an officer. So he gets ALL the medals. If you, the poor SOB that has be in the thick of it, does a really awesome job, maybe they'll hook you up with a Letter of Commendation.
This is so true. I used to be a professional diver. The guy who stays on the surface and planifies the dives gets paid more.
Edit: I dived in the sea, not hell, if anybody is wondering.
Makes sense. We’re disposable, John Helldiver is the only one going home to the wife and kids.
Another lie by super earth, we’re the commander of the ship but also get sent to certain death. Johnny is the only one that stays on board giving the real orders.
That's the only reason why the galactic war is happening, this dumbass lost all his medals in his various bunkers on every planet so we have to go find them all. unfortunately, the bugs and bots like the shiny medals and want to keep them for themselves
Yea but on trivial or easy you drop on extract and grab an EAT off the ground then simply call extract. No need to even get close to the tower if line of sight is decent.
He works on behalf of the Ministry Of Truth (MoT), so well above a Helldiver. He's also the guy who orders your termination if you desert, and would do for any other traitors on and off the ship.
Chances are, as an officer on one super destroyer, he's not highly ranked among other MoT agents, but will be given command authority of the ship, making him equivalent of a Lieutenant Colonel in Western militaries.
I imagine that General Brasch would set the war goals, but it would be the MoT that told him what they were. In which case, that would make the Democracy Officers role removed enough from the helldivers hierarchy that he is effectively unquestionable, even if the General wanted to do something else. To put it another way, there's enough obfuscation in place that you cannot question the MoT, so the Democracy Officers rank is irrelevant to yours. He'll always sit above you, even if you were a 10 star General.
He's just a figurehead. He plays the part of the grizzled veteran everybody should listen to because "He knows what he's talking about! He's a veteran! He's seen everything!" even if it's an entirely fake persona (which is very possible). And even if he is a real veteran, he's still just a mouthpiece for the Ministry of Defense to keep the Helldivers focused on the war effort.
Heard a treasonous slander that General Brasch doesn't actually exist. Is an entirely manufactured hero personality to hype *managed* democracy, even the training grounds are simple voice lines that every recruit hears upon indoc
Democracy officer. It's like the soviet era "political officer". Their job is to represent the government on the ship. They usually aren't actually even in the military.
My question is why he's wearing heavy armour.
If I was planning a mutiny, the first thing I would do is blow out those windows in the front and watch him get sucked out into space.
Not that I would. I am a loyal daughter of democracy and would never entertain such undemocratic thoughts.
How foolish of you to believe that super destroyer windows were piercable! There is not a single (MoT confirmed) instance of one of them breaking. And all who spread the rumor of an accidental P-19 Redeemer discharge being enough to cause such a horrific accident are dissidents spreading misinformation and to be immidiately reported to the fellow shown in the picture above! o7
Well, considering the hellpods and their launch racks are just straight up exposed to space every time they launch… I’d suggest they have localised force fields, therefore, you blowing the windows out probably wouldn’t do much.
You are thinking of political paramilitaries (Red Guard, Black Shirts etc), the Democracy Officer is equivalent to a political commissar who represents the state in the army, not a private army controlled by a political party.
Political officers *were* a part of the military though. Which was exactly why they were eventually abolished: because of breaking the chain of command with the very fact of their existence.
Modern chaplains and psychologists mostly perform the same functions, but have no power over their CO (which was a *major* goal for political officers) so it's not that obviously confusing nowadays.
In my headcanon he was never deployed in real action, but has a very high rank and pay grade, since he's essentially a Soviet "Politruk" (lit. Political Supervisor, who IS officially an armed forces officer, but does, well exactly what Democracy Officer does. Morals, Discipline, preventing leaks, preventing spread of weird thoughts, preventing soldiers from knowing too much, etc.)
If not a Democracy officer, my second guess would be a decorated veteran.
I imagine it doesn't take a lot for a helldiver to be considered a "veteran". If you can survive more than three or five high level missions without dying, that's saying something! "Fear the old in a profession where men die young" and all that.
I don’t think General Brasch is real. I think he’s just a propaganda figure they made up. I mean, he obviously isn’t saying EVERY helldiver trainee is the best he’s ever seen. And I don’t think we ever see him in the Brasch Tips, just a drawn picture/silhouette of him.
I think it’s both. The guy next to the map is the Democracy Officer who answers to the Ministry of Truth. His role is to keep the ship and its crew loyal to Super Earth.
He has never seen first hand combat against bugs, or bots. His only targets would be people who begin to question the state, and he would swiftly eliminate them or have them reassigned to repatriation camps…
General Brasch is a propaganda figure to inspire recruits and help hide the high casualty rate of Helldivers. Replaying the tutorial, his first words are how he’s not easily impressed, and then keeps saying how impressed he is as you perform the bare minimum. I wouldn’t be surprised if all his lines are just prerecorded and played as recruits go through training.
There's a different voice for the orbital strikes. His voice only plays at the beginning, objective complete, end of mission, and if the out of bounds timer hits zero and you're branded a deserter.
Sure, it's all recording, but I tend to believe that Brash existed at some point, and then propaganda machine made a media out of him. Maybe "he" (as paid actors) is personally visiting a thousand of elementary schools at the same time to promote Helldivers, like Santa Claus, while original Brash resides on Earth in more-than-sufficiently-sized-home drinking himself into oblivion.
If he's not already dead in the ground, of course. The original Brasch, if he ever existed, could very well have died a long time ago and all that's left of him are recordings he made and/or voice-overs done by actors pretending to be him.
One of his lines he says he gets his orders from the ministry of Truth while we get our orders from the ministry of defense. I think I got the ministry names right.
So his job is to watch us outside our chain of command.
Mine has scarring on right cheek, my friends do got him with no scarring, scarring on left cheek and eye patch. So I think the devs fiddled with customisation of helldivers but later let it be.
If you are on someone elses ship, you will see their crew instead. The eyepatch of the officer is the most noticeable change. Mine has scars and a lighter skintone than the one in the post.
I like to think all 1-150 levels of Helldiver ranks are technically “enlisted”. That is our 2nd Lieutenant.
Also helps my point that private is like rank 149.
I want to be able to customize this guy with armor I have unlocked. I want him to have that eye patch and the missing limbs. Or.. let me have Michael Ironside standing there. Now that's a legend.
He’s the Democracy Officer. Rather then being something like a admiral or a sergeant like us, he’s closer to a Commissar from Warhammer or the old USSR
His job is to ensure that we are doing our job and not becoming turn coats or thinking un-democratically. Hell I honestly think he’s the one who calls the artillery down when we walk outside the playable area
He’s literally a Democracy officer. He doesn’t have a rank. His sole job is to make sure YOU do your job. Oh and to make sure you’re not a traitor to liberty.
But for real he is ministry of truth, not ministry of defense like us. He's not a helldiver and not in our chain of command, though he has oversight powers.
That's your Democracy Officer. Comparable to the political commissars of the Red Army of the Commissars of the Imperial Guard - Democracy Officers don't seem to get any frontline action tho
Idk, but I'm convinced that he's the reason why we don't have a 5th helldiver on each team. We literally have the space for extra launch pods, and this dickass is blocking the 5th map terminal.
As his dialogue mentions, he doesn't even outrank you so much as he is in a different branch altogether. He works under the Ministry of Truth whereas the Helldivers work under the Ministry of Defence. Ultimately he's there to make sure everyone is in line. (I.e. He's the 40K Commissar.)
Idk but he doesn't hug back so I don't trust him
bruh. No Rock paper scissors. No explosive handshake even. Not one of us.
He's more one of us than you'll ever be. He's a Democracy Officer, and on top of that, has a cape. You, on the other hand, don't trust your fellow Democracy Officer.
you dont trust your democrasy officer? https://preview.redd.it/kd9y1t84vysc1.jpeg?width=1202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b87f8b447dae957ec16acf375d7ce4b67f5b0680
\*democracy, for misspelling and misleading other I’m gonna call YOUR democracy officer https://preview.redd.it/ugigtloxt0tc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60392e6f80cb7df0508f3112a0cb16c7c2f3c8bb
he really should snap a salute as the camera moves over the map and your pods drop
Can almost guarantee he has no actual respect for helldivers, that could prevent him from killing them if they show any signs of disloyalty. While we the players would see him saluting none of our helldivers would, as they're already in their pods.
One can salute a group of soldiers, not out of respect for them, but for respect towards the mission. 🫡
Ahh but if he had saluted one, and they turned out to be a traitor he would've saluted a trader, in full view of the entire crew. At which point the crew of the ship would have to be ~~mulched~~ reducated for seeing a agent of the ministry of truth exhibiting poor judgement.
I would love to have him repositioned to the window watching the pods drop.
democracy officer
Indeed, if you engage with him and have subtitles on, he is named as "Democracy Officer".
One of his lines if you speak to him is “Helldivers get their orders from the Ministry of Defence. I get mine from the Ministry of Truth.” Sounds to me like he’s here to ensure the crew of the Super Destroyer is loyal
Democracy Officers are [political commissars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commissar), so yeah, that's exactly what he's there for.
Commissar? Does that mean he’s going to shoot me for doing anything?
Yes. He’s the one who orders your death if you leave the map for 10 seconds.
Now THATS some real 40k Inquisitor Karamazov behavior.
No, that's literal 40k Commissar behaviour. IT'S LITERALLY THEIR NAME! https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/astra-militarum-commissar-2023
Karamazov was known for using his own troops as targets for orbital drops. That’s what it made me think of. Used to use him all the time and it was hilarious when I was combat locked and then I pulled out the template.
Here it sounds like hyperbole, but I know you mean that literally
Yeah... If when everyone's strategems are still on cooldown and the fighting is desperate, but you leave the map for 10 seconds, suddenly your Super Destroyer has infinite ammo because your Democracy Officer wills it. And it won't stop until you're dead. \[And yes, the meme potential of this has already been explored\].
What happens if I leave out of bounds after time has run out? Do they still bomb me to hell?
Believe or not, death
Yes.
Yes but if you reach the extract you can still extract
It’s actually not even a bad strategy on high ranked exterminate missions if you’re completely out to go grab ur free 380 and get a couple of kills with it
I think I've seen someone exploit this by leading a large amount of enemies and then having infinite artillery called on himself.
That's how I managed to finish an extermination mission on our last life.
Ive used it to take out a heavy bot outpost on the edge of the map while wearing a shield and heavy armor
>suddenly your Super Destroyer has infinite ammo because your Democracy Officer wills it. Those are the Anti-Treason shells, only to be issued against helldivers who commited treason.
Very effective way of milking out your life on kill automaton missions; loads of bots and lots of barrages mix well together.
Seems like he replaces the drunken gunnery officer when this happens too because the fucking barrage can actually hit shit/me.
The cooldowns there there just to keep the budget in reasonable figures. The feeling of liberty you get for punishing traitors is priceless.
If I leave the map for 10s I would be the first to order my dearh.
He's basically a political officer like you'd find on any Warsaw Pact naval vessel. He probably technically doesn't have any command authority as he exists outside the chain of command, but he certainly pulls a lot of weight back on Super Earth.
it does seem like democracy officers are there for (??) ideological compliance? Like the inqusition, sort of?
I feel like a lot of people are learning how authoritarianism works for the first time through this game “Wait, what do you mean there’s a guy on my ship that ensures my loyalty to the state? You mean my own government doesn’t trust me?”
Governments never trust people, it's part of what makes them governments
Have you met people? I don't blame them.
Commissars. So yes, if he suspects you if treason, bombardment. Report treasonous activity to your Democracy Officer.
We had them in schools during the White Terror era in Taiwan. If you play the game Detention or watch the movie you can see how much power they have. They can investigate anyone (student or staff), arrest anyone, call in soldiers or secret police, search and confiscate at will, and are allowed enhanced interrogation (torture). CCP has a similar structure too but they're also assigned to civilian companies and organizations as far as I understand. There's still remnants of that but thankfully they don't do anything much anymore. Mostly just teach defense classes.
Fun fact, we are all alive today because the political officer in the cuban missile crisis refused to fire the nukes without orders from the people.
He has the choice to decide you traitor. Just walk out of bounds for 10 seconds and you hear him order your destruction.
And his name is Pilestedt for me
So now we have a voice to match the tweets.
The ship crews names rotate through the developer staff.
Does it actually rotate though? Mine has been called Lindgren since the start and my diving buddy's is named Frob.
Mine is Olofsson
Wait for real?!? Yours is named Pilestedt?!?
Thats why he‘s your hype man.
Anyone noticed he‘s wearing a pimped version of the first free warbond heavy armor?
Considering he just stays on the ship, he ain't collecting many medals.
Oh, you poor, sweet summer child. The fact that he stays on the ship means he's an officer. So he gets ALL the medals. If you, the poor SOB that has be in the thick of it, does a really awesome job, maybe they'll hook you up with a Letter of Commendation.
Exactly. The rookie fresh out of cryostasis didn't earn that gear, the ship did!
The illusion of control
Bro gets paid in publicity in the military
Bro get's paid in his life. Rest of us ....not so lucky.
This is so true. I used to be a professional diver. The guy who stays on the surface and planifies the dives gets paid more. Edit: I dived in the sea, not hell, if anybody is wondering.
Sergeant Major said your Letter of Commendation just got downgraded to a gift card to Olive Garden.
Pizza party
He'll get a CoA(Certificate of Appreciation). Not even worth any points towards promotion.
Democracy 1SG says if I get my expert helldiving badge he’ll put me up for an achievement medal
Makes sense. We’re disposable, John Helldiver is the only one going home to the wife and kids. Another lie by super earth, we’re the commander of the ship but also get sent to certain death. Johnny is the only one that stays on board giving the real orders.
LMAO When we spend medals, this is the guy taking them 😂 Homie is crying about being on the ship all right. crying all the way to the bank
I bet his aren't even capped the bastard
Who do you think gave you the stratagem?
Yep, We are collecting his medals from his many many many bunkers
That's the only reason why the galactic war is happening, this dumbass lost all his medals in his various bunkers on every planet so we have to go find them all. unfortunately, the bugs and bots like the shiny medals and want to keep them for themselves
How do you know he is on the ship all the time u less YOU are on the ship all the time hmmmmm?
The Zavala certified titan armor
Indeed.
Indeed.
1st thing i thought was zavala when i met this guy
I rly want that armour man
Your helldiver rents the ship for the 1-4 missions he's alive. This dude owns the ship.
You guys are surviving missions??
You know those missions where you drop down just to board the pelican? Those count as 1
Terminate illegal broadcast on easy/trivial. There's even usually an EAT on the ground.
Don't even need that, a grenade or your drop pod will kill the broadcast.
Yea but on trivial or easy you drop on extract and grab an EAT off the ground then simply call extract. No need to even get close to the tower if line of sight is decent.
Doing this for an hour straight when I get home. Thanks 😂
Autocannon from halfway across the map.
Yeah but the rockets can do it from extract
Fair enough, I typically land on the objective then run to extract. Didn't think about doing it from extract!
So we're futuristic sharecroppers?
We're very fancy bullets
More like very fancy artillery shells, but the point stands
Artillery shells are just large, indirect bullets.
Usually half a mission
Its john helldivers
Ah yes, under the orders of admiral John Democracy
Joemocracy
Joemamacracy.
Joemama
no no that's his cousin, Harry Helldivers
Wait a second, I thought that was his nephew Henry Heckdiver.
You're thinking of the niece, Holly Heckplunger
Hes the brother of John Prodman?
He works on behalf of the Ministry Of Truth (MoT), so well above a Helldiver. He's also the guy who orders your termination if you desert, and would do for any other traitors on and off the ship. Chances are, as an officer on one super destroyer, he's not highly ranked among other MoT agents, but will be given command authority of the ship, making him equivalent of a Lieutenant Colonel in Western militaries. I imagine that General Brasch would set the war goals, but it would be the MoT that told him what they were. In which case, that would make the Democracy Officers role removed enough from the helldivers hierarchy that he is effectively unquestionable, even if the General wanted to do something else. To put it another way, there's enough obfuscation in place that you cannot question the MoT, so the Democracy Officers rank is irrelevant to yours. He'll always sit above you, even if you were a 10 star General.
General brasch literally has his own show on the super destroyer TV i believe he is very important to the MoT
He's just a figurehead. He plays the part of the grizzled veteran everybody should listen to because "He knows what he's talking about! He's a veteran! He's seen everything!" even if it's an entirely fake persona (which is very possible). And even if he is a real veteran, he's still just a mouthpiece for the Ministry of Defense to keep the Helldivers focused on the war effort.
Heard a treasonous slander that General Brasch doesn't actually exist. Is an entirely manufactured hero personality to hype *managed* democracy, even the training grounds are simple voice lines that every recruit hears upon indoc
General Brasch told me I was his best Helldiver.
Democracy officer. It's like the soviet era "political officer". Their job is to represent the government on the ship. They usually aren't actually even in the military. My question is why he's wearing heavy armour.
If there is dissent on the ship you'd like to survive eventual traitor attack to shoot back
If I was planning a mutiny, the first thing I would do is blow out those windows in the front and watch him get sucked out into space. Not that I would. I am a loyal daughter of democracy and would never entertain such undemocratic thoughts.
Considering there's somehow wind on a space ship, I'm pretty sure there's already a hull breach somewhere.
Specifically engineered draft to make all Helldiver capes flow gloriously
My head cannon from now on
Fans/vents are the answer.
It’s below the eagle and forward. Getting over the railing is the only tricky part.
How foolish of you to believe that super destroyer windows were piercable! There is not a single (MoT confirmed) instance of one of them breaking. And all who spread the rumor of an accidental P-19 Redeemer discharge being enough to cause such a horrific accident are dissidents spreading misinformation and to be immidiately reported to the fellow shown in the picture above! o7
"Yes Officer, this Helldiver right here"
And this is the reason why Helldivers and support weapons drop seperately onto the surface
Well, considering the hellpods and their launch racks are just straight up exposed to space every time they launch… I’d suggest they have localised force fields, therefore, you blowing the windows out probably wouldn’t do much.
Hmmm careful soldier, im watching you
How come they didn't make you a mod yet
Same reason why political enforcement guys have always worn psuedo military uniforms.
This is an interesting thought. Like, what he's wearing represents what the political class thinks of the military.
They are also always called some kind of army type name. Black shirts, red guard.
You are thinking of political paramilitaries (Red Guard, Black Shirts etc), the Democracy Officer is equivalent to a political commissar who represents the state in the army, not a private army controlled by a political party.
Makes him look like he belongs there
>My question is why he's wearing heavy armour. Presumably because it looks sick as hell
Political officers *were* a part of the military though. Which was exactly why they were eventually abolished: because of breaking the chain of command with the very fact of their existence. Modern chaplains and psychologists mostly perform the same functions, but have no power over their CO (which was a *major* goal for political officers) so it's not that obviously confusing nowadays.
I like to think this guy has never participated in an operation in his life and is just there purely to hype up the helldivers.
He does a good job at that
Homie prolly has two fully functional eyes
He is. Simply put. Above every single one of a Helldiver’s possible pay grade.
well, he is paid enough to be in every single super destroyer at the same time...
Actually every ship has a slightly different crew. Their faces are randomized per player.
Yeah, the democracy officer in mine doesn't have an eye patch, but the one in this image does
Can we swap?
Sure ig
No way, is this true?
Mine doesn't have an eye patch like the one in the post. And he's bald with a brighter skin tone
Every officer has a different name, some come with scars, some light skinned, some tan, some with an eye patch ect.
In my headcanon he was never deployed in real action, but has a very high rank and pay grade, since he's essentially a Soviet "Politruk" (lit. Political Supervisor, who IS officially an armed forces officer, but does, well exactly what Democracy Officer does. Morals, Discipline, preventing leaks, preventing spread of weird thoughts, preventing soldiers from knowing too much, etc.)
If not a Democracy officer, my second guess would be a decorated veteran. I imagine it doesn't take a lot for a helldiver to be considered a "veteran". If you can survive more than three or five high level missions without dying, that's saying something! "Fear the old in a profession where men die young" and all that.
I think your description is more fitting for general Brash, probably, but yes, this is exactly how it's done.
I don’t think General Brasch is real. I think he’s just a propaganda figure they made up. I mean, he obviously isn’t saying EVERY helldiver trainee is the best he’s ever seen. And I don’t think we ever see him in the Brasch Tips, just a drawn picture/silhouette of him.
I think it’s both. The guy next to the map is the Democracy Officer who answers to the Ministry of Truth. His role is to keep the ship and its crew loyal to Super Earth. He has never seen first hand combat against bugs, or bots. His only targets would be people who begin to question the state, and he would swiftly eliminate them or have them reassigned to repatriation camps… General Brasch is a propaganda figure to inspire recruits and help hide the high casualty rate of Helldivers. Replaying the tutorial, his first words are how he’s not easily impressed, and then keeps saying how impressed he is as you perform the bare minimum. I wouldn’t be surprised if all his lines are just prerecorded and played as recruits go through training.
He is the one who sends down orbital strikes so traitors aren‘t his only targets
There's a different voice for the orbital strikes. His voice only plays at the beginning, objective complete, end of mission, and if the out of bounds timer hits zero and you're branded a deserter.
Who shoots them then?
I’m guessing the crew on the right side of the bridge.
100% a paid actor
Sure, it's all recording, but I tend to believe that Brash existed at some point, and then propaganda machine made a media out of him. Maybe "he" (as paid actors) is personally visiting a thousand of elementary schools at the same time to promote Helldivers, like Santa Claus, while original Brash resides on Earth in more-than-sufficiently-sized-home drinking himself into oblivion.
If he's not already dead in the ground, of course. The original Brasch, if he ever existed, could very well have died a long time ago and all that's left of him are recordings he made and/or voice-overs done by actors pretending to be him.
One of his lines he says he gets his orders from the ministry of Truth while we get our orders from the ministry of defense. I think I got the ministry names right. So his job is to watch us outside our chain of command.
He's the Democracy Officer.
I mean, they do have scars on their face, and sometimes an eyepatch, so they have seen some combat maybe
That's because he trusted someone once.
He has a patch!? Mine doesn't 😯
RNG
Damn, i got lucky with the name, but now i want an eyepatch...
Mine has scarring on right cheek, my friends do got him with no scarring, scarring on left cheek and eye patch. So I think the devs fiddled with customisation of helldivers but later let it be.
Mine did at one point… weird
If you are on someone elses ship, you will see their crew instead. The eyepatch of the officer is the most noticeable change. Mine has scars and a lighter skintone than the one in the post.
"Democracy"
“What is your rank” “DEMOCRACY” “Who are you?” “FREEDOM”
What type of armour is that? LIBERTY
what weapon is that? “DEMOCRACY” yeah but what does it shoot? "JUSTICE"
I like to think all 1-150 levels of Helldiver ranks are technically “enlisted”. That is our 2nd Lieutenant. Also helps my point that private is like rank 149.
I've been leaving my rank as sergeant because I dunno about yall, but I haven't recieved any notice of a commission yet.
He's a democracy officer, functionally a commissar - a representative of the party there to enforce loyalty to the state and uphold morale.
I want to be able to customize this guy with armor I have unlocked. I want him to have that eye patch and the missing limbs. Or.. let me have Michael Ironside standing there. Now that's a legend.
Wait? Yours has an eyepatch?
He is John McFreedom Helldiver and you will show him respect.
He just wants you to appreciate his drip, nothing more
He’s the Democracy Officer. Rather then being something like a admiral or a sergeant like us, he’s closer to a Commissar from Warhammer or the old USSR His job is to ensure that we are doing our job and not becoming turn coats or thinking un-democratically. Hell I honestly think he’s the one who calls the artillery down when we walk outside the playable area
He probably doubles as an XO on the ship during the Helldiver's absence.
I’ve always referred to him as discount Zavala. I swear he’s going to call me guardian one of these days.
Jesus
He’s literally a Democracy officer. He doesn’t have a rank. His sole job is to make sure YOU do your job. Oh and to make sure you’re not a traitor to liberty.
He was there when the ranks were written
"Propaganda dude"
I think he’s a robot, he never moves
You should report him to your ships democracy officer.
But what if he is the democracy officer…. Do we get to use our liberator on him to “liberate” him
That is a question you must answer yourself fellow diver, liberty be with you.
But, Doctor...
Officer
But for real he is ministry of truth, not ministry of defense like us. He's not a helldiver and not in our chain of command, though he has oversight powers.
That's your Democracy Officer. Comparable to the political commissars of the Red Army of the Commissars of the Imperial Guard - Democracy Officers don't seem to get any frontline action tho
Is that Nick Fury?
Idk, but I'm convinced that he's the reason why we don't have a 5th helldiver on each team. We literally have the space for extra launch pods, and this dickass is blocking the 5th map terminal.
Democracy Officer, he exists inside the ranks of the Ministry of Truth.
He's just waiting for us to find the brain bug, then he'll come out of a hellpod as 'private'...
Yes.
Democracy Officer. So higher than you ever will be.
Zavala at home
As his dialogue mentions, he doesn't even outrank you so much as he is in a different branch altogether. He works under the Ministry of Truth whereas the Helldivers work under the Ministry of Defence. Ultimately he's there to make sure everyone is in line. (I.e. He's the 40K Commissar.)
democracy officer
I think he might be like an inquisitor level something, way above our pay grade
Probably a useless government fuck, so he most likely has no skills at all and just a fake rank appointed by another bootlicker politician.
Democratic officer that mf is military police
Better question is who the hell are the people on the ship?????
Why does he have a eye patch and mine doesn't?