The theater of war in Helldivers 2 is a complicated one. With two separate fronts to defend against, Super Earth must make some tough decisions about where to send in its brave soldiers and when to cut and run. The last few Major Orders have been building up to launching Super Earth's newest weapon, the Democracy Space Station.
Arrowhead made the Helldivers 2 Major Order count in the most whoselome way possible.
While the build-up to this "superweapon" has been slow and hard-fought, the Helldivers have been making progress towards it. The next step in launching the weapon is to staff it, for which the Major Order is to recruit "cheap labor". The devs really want to push the morality of the player base, as this will be done by recruiting "disenfranchised families" trying to escape conflict.
Issued only yesterday, the new Major Order states that progress on the DSS continues despite the setback of the previous orders. However, the next step in bringing the superweapon to a functional state is to staff it. Being a weapon, it isn't exactly going to have the comfortable quarters, so Super Earth has decided to forcibly recruit what are essentially refugees...