Helldivers 2 Major Order says if we liberate all Automaton-held planets, we'll wipe them out "once and for all" — but I don't buy it

Helldivers 2.

What you need to know

• Following successful defensive efforts at Malevelon Creek, Ubanea, and Draupnir, the new Helldivers 2 Major Order is directing players to liberate planets Tibit, Durgen, and Maia by early Monday morning.
• If the Helldivers can achieve this, they'll boot the Automatons from the Galactic War completely, with the game suggesting they'll be destroyed "once and for all."
• However, between whispers of something called "The Reclamation" and ominous cloaked warships in orbit near Automaton planets, it's clear that the bot menace's defeat won't be final. What's more likely is that they'll soon return and launch a counteroffensive.
• The primary target of that counteroffensive may be Cyberstan, the homeworld of the Cyborg race from the first Helldivers game that's suspected to be the creators of the Automatons. The Cyborgs were sealed away in the mines of Cyberstan during the first Galactic War, though the Automatons may free them in this one.