Summary
- The Super Earth Government has enacted the FREEDOM Act to keep its citizenry safe from the Illuminate.
- Helldivers are ordered to pave the way for a surveillance and security centre on Mastia.
- Players will need to hold three different planets to fulfill the major order.
Helldivers 2 players have been in a constant battle with the Illuminate scourge since their highly-anticipated reveal at The Game Awards. The war effort has been going well and, through the actions of the brave Helldivers, Super Earth’s scientists have discovered that the shambling Voteless are created using brainwashing and gene-splicing. With this knowledge in hand, the latest major order is focused on stopping the Illuminate’s ability to mind-control the citizens of Super Earth.
The peerless Super Earth Government has identified Mastia as an ideal location to construct the Centre for Citizen Surveillance and Security, a new base of operations enabled by the enactment of the F.R.E.E.D.O.M. Act.
Freedom From Mind Control
“The Illuminate have been forced to pay a heavy toll for their merciless campaign of terror. The Helldivers killed vast swaths of the bloodthirsty alien species, sending a message of what is to come should they choose to continue their aggression,” the order reads. “Yet the greatest casualty of the Illuminate campaign of terror has been our citizen’s sense of safety. To restore our citizens’ safety, the Super Earth Government has unanimously voted to enact the “Freedom & Readiness to Enable Effective Defense & Obstruction of Mind Influence” Act of 2184, or FREEDOM Act. The Helldivers are ordered to secure MASTIA to facilitate the construction of the new Centre. Only then will our citizens feel safe.”
If one were to take lessons from Earth’s history, then they’d perhaps see that a government ramping up surveillance capabilities to combat a supposed threat is a textbook authoritarian move. However, this is Super Earth, which by its very definition, is superior to Earth. It’s also clear from the actions of the venerable Super Earth Government that managed democracy is the perfect political system and they would never abuse their absolute power.
Helldivers are ordered to hold Mastia and the surrounding planets of Tarsh and Gaellivare until the order expires. Presumably, success will bring some type of tool or facility that can be used against the Illuminate. With any luck, any new addition to players’ arsenals will be more useful than the Democracy Space Station.
Helldivers 2
Do you believe in freedom? Can you stand in the face of oppression – and defend the defenceless? Wage war for peace. Die for democracy.
Join forces with up to three friends and wreak havoc on an alien scourge threatening the safety of your home planet, Super Earth, in this multiplayer co-op shooter for PS5 and PC from Arrowhead Game Studios.
Step into the boots of the Helldivers, an elite class of soldiers whose mission is to spread peace, liberty and Managed Democracy using the biggest, baddest and most explosive tools in the galaxy.
Helldivers don’t go planet side without proper backup, but it’s up to you to decide how and when to call it in. Not only do you have a host of superpowered primary weapons and customizable loadouts, you also have the ability to call on stratagems during play.
Helldivers 2 features Arrowhead’s best cooperative gameplay yet. Collaboration will be vital: Teams will synergize on loadouts, strategize their approach for each mission and complete objectives together.1
Enlist in Super Earth’s premier military peacekeeping force today. We are heroes… we are legends… WE ARE HELLDIVERS.