The Complete Lore of the Helldivers Universe

Helldivers 2's ongoing second galactic war is an ongoing story that is actively being written as time goes on. What the game often doesn't explain is the story behind Super Earth's war with the Terminids and the Automatons. This video explains the story of Helldivers 1 and the first galactic war with Helldivers pitted against the Illuminate, Cyborgs, and Bugs. By the end of the video, a complete timeline of the major events perpetrated by the Helldivers in Helldivers 2 plays out in full with maps and more.

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Music used from these soundtracks:
Enter the Gungeon
Helldivers 2
Faster Than Light
Halo Wars: 2

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0:00 Intro
1:10 Super Earth
6:00 The First Galactic War
11:33 The Second Galactic War
16:14 How Helldivers Works
17:53 Operation: Valiant Enclosure
18:22 1st Battle of Malevelon Creek
19:22 2nd Battle of Malevelon Creek
19:59 Liberation of Tien Kwan
21:44 Activation of the Terminid Control System
22:03 Operation Prime Liberation and Hell-Draco
23:42 Operation: Swift Disassembly
24:34 3rd Battle of Malevelon Creek
26:35 Operation: Rearing
26:47 The Reclamation
28:41 Operation: Courageous Defence
29:23 Operation: Menkent Line
29:54 Today
31:50 Outro

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[Nikos.]

I was thinking about delaying this video due to the news surrounding Helldivers and PSN accounts, but decided to upload the video anyway and cover the situation before the video starts. I plan on talking more about it in the near future. Be respectful to the devs at Arrowhead, in recent news it's been reported that they're doing what they can to help us out. This unfortunate decision was Sony's doing after all. Bad news aside, I genuinely hope you enjoy this video as much as I did researching and putting it together!

[wblitzw]

You forgot to add the part where the helldivers, terminids, automatons, and Joel all teamed up to wage war against the gods, Sony

[lnick]

In fact, the second galactic war was declared only a few days ago. Before that, it was called "special military operations." We all know what that refers to.

[red_d]

holy shit the automatons pulled a Battle Of The Bulge

[maxortiz]

[This comment has been deleted and is being investigated for treason.]

[rhithym]

My favorite piece of implied lore is that the helldivers aren't even an "elite" force. The extremely short tutorial is a cake walk, and the only boot camp training a recruit undergoes. They're stored in cryo like disposable meat, and the average life expectancy of a diver in the field is two minutes.

[beevebeeverson]

I love the idea of trying to create the Automatons to be horrifying to Helldivers in appearance, but we just continue to throw ourselves at them

[viadoesdumbthings]

One note: canonically the first galactic war took place in 2084, such was the second galactic war started 2184, it’s an intentional 1984 reference by the developers. Other than the dates not lining up, great video!

[The_Shayreq_Demon]

This is so cool. Hearing you go over battles/operations and thinking "wow, I was a part of that.". You should totally do like quarterly updates of the 2nd war. Archives of our actions should be kept for future generations haha.

[GRTakerTh]

Somehow the notion that the bugs are out there to destroy our family values is simply hilarious 😂👍

[yourbestfriendnobody]

Fun fact before yesterday the 15 of May we weren't in the second galactic war. Major Orders and all the mission before where "tactical strikes" but now since we failed 2 major orders, Dispatch told us that we are entering the second galactic war.

[ihavenoideaman]

I joined a little after my best friend, and at least one a week when we’re playing he’ll be like “YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WAR, BOY. YOU WERENT THERE! YOU WERENT AT MAVELON CREEK!”

[MayBeSomething]

A friend and I found a bug corpse on a bot world. How did it get there, and what is Joel cooking?

[LuiBei]

"Equiped with the most advanced" nananana we ain't got shit. We are missing almost all the vehicles from the first game and all the upgrades for weapons

[appendix_gang]

As somebody who loves live service games, the move from Destiny to Helldivers has been so refreshing. I don’t feel like I’m being nickel-and-dimed for every single piece of content anymore

[arsonexc]

Just a quick addition, the first generation of Helldivers were first deployed on Earth to combat the last nation opposing the federation, conventional deployment methods where inneffective against them so the Hellpod and subsequently the Helldivers where formed. This is why I'd like to think that in the 1st game we play as 2nd generation Helldivers and the 2nd game we play as 3rd generation helldivers.

[ThatGuy]

If you listen to an automaton patrol you can hear them marching in cadence. The first line is “Heart, Steel”, and I think this is hinting that Automatons have some human body parts inside of them. If you look around fabricators you can see humans with body parts removed further strengthening this theory.

[drxaodin]

We Completed the First True Major Order Sony Backed down... Have A Cup Of Liber-Tea Sony

[aviatornic]

As a new diver, thank you for catching me up. Im building my skills killing bugs before I jump into anything with bots

[ghostlyswat]

If I remember correctly according to the devs the cyborgs and automatons are not the same faction

Though the fact they completely baited super earth into believing they won so they could grab cyberstan makes me believe that perhaps the cyborgs made the automatons and they want to free their masters from humans

Or maybe they see them as fellow robots who need to be liberated