Malevelon Creek is the white whale of the Helldivers 2 community. It's a gloomy, bot-dominated world where the trees speak binary, but the Creek is always full of determined divers putting in their time (and bullets). Always.

Bugs swarming the planet? Creekers are crawling. Bots expanding into cyberstanes? The creekers are crawling.

"Vital defenses are happening just a planet away." Creekers are, in fact, crawling.

That changed recently when the Creek became the star of the show, with a critical order demanding that the players release the Creek. They did so, along with a brilliant defensive effort, and as of this writing, Maleveron Creek is now under Super Earth's control. [Earlier in the week, the Helldivers Twitter account declared April 1 as the official day of remembrance. This is now reflected in the game by an official decree from the President of Super Earth and a cool cape.

"On this day each year, the citizens of Super Earth unite for three minutes during their lunch break to solemnly mourn those who gave their lives to liberate Maleveron Creek." Three minutes at lunchtime does not mean that the memorial service will be added to the holiday, but rather that it will eclipse the holiday. I am not complaining about it. Please don't tell my democracy officer. I am already in trouble for an illuminating thought crime.

To commemorate this, all divers will be given cloaks free of charge by order of Super Earth. Fellowship" might be a strong word if you are one of the players frustrated by the attachment to the Vietnam universe that fuels the deep trauma of the creekers. But Super Earth says they are comrades-in-arms.

For those wondering where the commemorative mug, or cape, is, as the Discord announcement pleads, the cape is being delivered bit by bit: "Please wait a while for this cape to reach your Destroyer. That means it will show up eventually.

The cape itself is stylish, but there is no patriotic benefit at all to the hell-diver who wears it - other than the knowledge that the Creek Crawler will never be forgotten.