The worst has come to pass in Helldivers 2. Despite the ferocious efforts of Super Earth's finest special forces operatives, the squid-like aliens of the Illuminate menace have managed to achieve their latest objective: moving the Meridian Singularity — a colossal black hole created last year when Super Earth was forced to use it to destroy a Terminid supercolony on the planet Meridia — close to the world Angel's Venture, resulting in its violent destruction. All that remains of the once-lush colony is its molten fragments, the orbit of which you can visit by charting a course for it on your ship's galaxy map.
To accomplish this, the Illuminate invaded numerous Super Earth colonies and harvested Dark Energy from them, using it as fuel to pull the black hole — itself created with Dark Fluid the Helldivers recovered from the faction during the First Galactic War — towards Angel's Venture. The most recent Major Order saw the Helldivers valiantly fight the Illuminate on every front to try and prevent it from accruing enough Dark Energy, but tragically, they were unsuccessful in stopping enough incursions.
