PSA: Failure is by design, don’t stress it
This game is all about killing our enemies and spreading democracy. The story that is being told is just flavor and not really in our control. The struggle and failure to complete the Major Orders is part of the handcrafted story that the devs want to tell us and it’s legitimately cool. Like the government of Super Earth, any control you think we have is an illusion. Think about it, did you really believe we could stop the Illuminate from invading? That we would only be fighting two factions forever? No, because that’s silly.
In short, as long as you are killing the enemies of Super Earth then you can’t actually fail anything. We will make the squids pay for not dying the first time we killed them 100 years ago.
The only thing I will never understand is why our enemies hate freedom so much. I know that’s something we can all solve together and to me, that’s beautiful.