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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There is mega fucked evidence for it that the helldivers run into on a regular basis, the dozens of colonist corpses herded into the automaton bases and butchered on slabs for their brains.

They are also speaking very distorted english, including rarely thanking the player for killing them (perhaps varies with localisation), and use the exact same color and flag as the cyborgs did during the first war. And those certainly were humans, albeit definitely on the affront to nature side.

And lastly the cryptic message that was once posted on IRL social media, which decodes into a message that the automatons are the children of the cyborgs.

So my personal theory is that we learn over the course of the story that the automatons are some sort of nightmarish last ditch effort the cyborgs made; creating self replicating adaptive war machines running on human brains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Also the human shaped automatons having human sounding marching chants, the samples that are bottled up like a 6 pack of cola...

I guess the "inspired by star wars" might be coincidence, although I hight have missed an in game reference to the star wars setting still being around in universe.