Helldivers 2's new space station will be a "gigastructure" an "order of magnitude larger than a Super Destroyer" – if players can protect it for what looks like 4 Major Orders

The path to Helldivers 2's shiny new Democracy Space Station is even longer than expected, and if anything this beast may be even more important than it once seemed. With a staging ground successfully selected and defended – Gaellivare, named after the hometown of creative director Johan Pilestedt – the latest Major Order has kicked off the first of four "construction phases" leading up to the grand opening of the DSS. Clear them all and we'll apparently have ourselves a "gigastructure" that dwarfs even the iconic Super Destroyer battleships.

"Once complete, the DSS will be a new strategic-level weapon," a new High Command dispatch reads. "It will wield powerful, Helldiver-directed weaponry to aid in the liberation of its orbited planet. Through a cutting-edge voting system, the Helldivers will determine where to deploy the DSS, and when to use its capabilities." 

Players have speculated that this space station will tie into a social or clan system of sorts, but on a mechanical level, it currently seems to be an addition to the flow of the Galactic War itself. The community will decide where to deploy the DSS – quite literally fighting with democracy – and it will, presumably, aid in the fight on that planet, perhaps by augmenting the offensive decay rate in the red-blue tug-of-war. This is more speculative, but this could potentially relieve some pressure in multi-planet Major Orders, or enable new order types pushing two-pronged war efforts, with the DSS helping to hold down one front. 

Whatever the DSS is meant to do, it ain't gonna do anything if we leave it unfinished. "Reaching the next stage of DSS development demands significant scientific breakthroughs," the order continues. "The completed station will be an order of magnitude larger than a Super Destroyer, beyond the capacity of our current Alcubiere Warp Drives to transport without astronomic E-710 consumption. 

"The Helldivers are ordered to clear and hold Turing, to allow the Ministry of Science to