Draiss leaned against the console, and gave him a flat stare. "Because no one wanted to know. Except Bahamut, Sune, Tiamat, Mordin, the Inevitables, and several others. As for this particular one, it wasn't THIS bad until three weeks ago, and we had a communications disruption for nearly three months before that. We had been sending weekly teams over to make sure after the daily teams the first week, and nothing worse than the usual suicide charges, followed by us moving in to destroy the lairs they came from, and we downgraded to a monthly check four weeks ago yesterday. Yesterday the recon team for the month had gone over, and they got obliterated before they could report to either side. I got a notification of the recon team being overdue when I accessed the archives, and when I checked in, I damn near blanched. I am sure all of you remember me suddenly paling when my wayward personality introduced the charge of consorting with powers of beyond time and space, or whatever? Well, it wasn't to that, it was due to me realizing how FUBAR the situation here was. I was already directing relief forces here while snarking at the Valeyard."<br/><br/>He tapped the keys on the console, and brought up every known beyonder influence in every mapped plane. He was finally at nearly 15% done after twenty five years of mapping the multi-planar-verse, and there were thousands of various shades on the map, but only three were red, including the one they were helping with. "The other two are similar problems, but with sentient races that have suddenly united under one person. An entire plane inside of two years for both. And they are clearly NOT in their right minds. Those are red because we don't want the 'ruler' getting out beyond their current planes. Wouldn't be surprised if they ascended soon. Feel free to throw your own people in there, though if they turn against you, I get to say I told you so."<br/><br/>He tapped the purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange areas on the maps, and then gave him a calculating look. "Want my honest thoughts? Or rather, what I know to be true without any evidence other than an energy signature that no one else can sense but myself, my constructs, avatars, aspects, and a handful of other gods? Every one of those marks on the map is a known BEYONDER taint or incident. Purple are ones that are either moderately helpful or benign. Blue and greens are known taints but we are trying to determine if they are symbiotic or parasitic taints, and the yellow, orange and reds are known parasitic taints or HOSTS, of varying levels of severity, or are special cases that we can't just charge in and put a bolt into the tainted being's heads. Worse? These are the ones that are NOT being actively watched over by one of the beyonders, because if it was, it would be like the Lurker War. It was yellow until the recon team vanished. Which means confirmed parasitic taint, but mild problem overall. It has been updated to a deep red, and if it had broken the out perimeter and the mountain range, it would be the first black mark on the map. We STERILIZE planes that get that far. From orbit if we have to. Right now, it is a hypothetical situation, but this one is just a case on why I am rarely resting any more. Every second has to be accounted for, every action must be efficient and effective, and my mistakes will cost the multi-planar-verse a habitable plane."<br/><br/>He stopped, and glared at the map, before shaking his head. "Besides, until I started ranting about them, everyone else thought they were a myth. Oh, and the worst part?"<br/><br/>He smiled grimly at the assembled gods. "The taints and hosts can hide themselves from you. You are proof that they can. One is standing in front of you and talking to you. Right now. Hi."<br/><br/>He gave them a bland wave, before sighing in vexation. "Anyhoo, if you want to help, hire a couple of stalker squads, that lets me keep a detecting presence on your plane, and I can get strike teams there before it gets to orange. Any questions? And all the previously mentioned gods knew about that little fact... overdeities, has it been more than a decade already? Wow."