Draiss got the alert a couple of seconds before the alarms in the command center began screaming. "Alert, class 3 incursion on plane 6741a in progress. Emergency, no forces nearby to contain initial incursion. Emergency addendum, initial recommended quarantine distances have been exceeded. Alert, class 3 incursion on..."<br/><br/>He tuned out the announcements as the rapid response forces, a couple dozen Hell Jumper death squad constructs tossed their initial assault explosives through portals where scans indicated the highest concentration of beyonder shards were, and then sealed the portals for two seconds as the explosions tore the shards nearest the portal apart, and then they leapt through the portals, energy pistols chattering and energy blades humming through shards, fighting like the possessed, like the suicide squads they were. The odds of them surviving the incursion were low, but they were there to give the shards something to throw themselves against, and keep them from spreading out. Even as they came out, one was shredded by a mortally wounded hunter killer, but its death explosion took the abomination with it. Satisfied that the Hell Jumpers were doing their job and living up to their titles, he contacted the nearest avatar, directing it to assist the shadow stalker constructs pouring through portals at secondary quarantine distances, and setting up kill zones.<br/><br/>Satisfied that the constructs could handle a handful of hunter killers and a few dozen shards, he turned his attention to the portal, its unnaturalness obvious to anyone familiar with portals, the normally smooth outline instead a wavering, ever shifting wound in the air, as more shards continued to stream through the portal. It didn't seem stable enough to support a leviathan class shard, which was a small mercy, so he turned his attention back to the overall fight, and suggested that the two death squad 'guards' for the diplomat strongly advise Smoothhand's guards to advise him on the situation, and let them in to brief him in person. They had no war class weapons, but they did have built in energy daggers and an energy pistol on their hips, neither of which was enough to do anything to a god other than briefly amuse it before they were shredded.