There they would find that, unless they themselves took to the field, the Lurkers were like planar locusts. They did not fear, they did not hesitate, they did not retreat even a fraction of an iota of an atom. They blithely charged to their deaths, their carapaces strong enough to turn aside the constructs basic weapons, and resist the heavier ones, and their four arms had impossibly sharp claws on the ends. A single eye dominated the top of their torso, but most had them shut, a single, impossibly armored individual in the rear center of the swarm's mass directing them. Hundreds of small, agile fliers hovered over the swarms, more coming in to replace the ones that died or exploded against an enemy, and they avoided attacks in ways that should have been impossible for an organic. The huge siege units were the worst though, a horrible combination of crab and lobster, no eyes or claws, but a huge, shimmering field overhead, and ten powerful legs forced its dragging body forward, its sheer size and speed all it needed to be a weapon, and its armor was surpassed only by the armored lurker leading each swarming mass. And the armored lurker was probably the worst among the swarms, to the ones Draiss had trained to detect beyonder energies, because they were impossibly tainted it with, almost as if they were a manifested host.<br/><br/>Draiss cursed as the gods arrived, in the command center, and directed the eight arriving stations, the last of the station fleet to assist stations 1 and 7 who had been there for the whole five years, providing over watch and kill sat capabilities to the ground forces. Now the stations could go from area sterilization and harrying to actually attempting to coordinate their fire to support beleaguered ground units, though Draiss was ordering every outpost to be abandoned, all the outpost constructs moving to fortress 1, which had been set up as a forward assault base, just outside the main lair. It had survived so far only because it had been built for the worst case scenario, and had station 1 on permanent over watch, leaving station 7 to handle the myriad requests put on it. It was from there that Draiss would counter the flood of beyonder tainted organics, and if necessary, sunder the plane's crust. They had been winning for almost five years, and the Lurkers had turned it around in three weeks and put him so far on the defensive he was barely holding the outer perimeter, a line of fortresses around natural choke points, the last line against a full Lurker infestation. If they broke through that line, the plane was lost. They would get to the ocean, and begin breeding in those ripe, nutrient areas, and he would never be able to purge them from it.<br/><br/>His first task was contacting and redirecting the assisting gods to the outer perimeter, citing a need to prevent the Lurkers from breaking his quarantine or they would have to abandon and purge the plane with fire to clean them out, which all the current reinforcements were moving to those fortresses. Twenty four fortresses were set around the mountain range surrounding the main lair, and the Underdark of that continent had been sealed with magma, preventing them from burrowing out. Once those were reinforced, he sighed, before outlining the basic campaign to purge the Lurkers, mostly saturation carpet nova bombings, several times, to ensure all the shock troops were dead before kill teams were sent in. He had the other gods sit in on the briefings, showing pictures of the heavily armored feeders stripping everything from the overworld, chasing down and butchering animals, consuming entire forests, entire grasslands reduced to barren rocks and deserts as the Lurkers fed their own 'war machine' to fight his. "So, would anyone claim I am overreacting with my plan to bomb that area back to the primordial era, or that these are somehow not a threat? Or that my constructs pulling in those meteors and planetoids for strip mining is somehow over zealous? We are expecting this to take up to ten weeks. And no, we will NOT accept any non-construct assistance, the Lurkers will kill them and then take the bodies back to make more."