Draiss waited a moment, seeing if the pain would return to him like it had before, but after a moment, he turned and headed back to the courtroom. "So, the judge was a fragment of me. Anyone wanna take over so we can finish this up? I have a war to turn around."<br/><br/>He tapped the still active console, bringing the Lurker War's communications to the courtroom, and everyone watching. "...REDIRECT ARTILLERY TO SECTOR 73-A4.2. Lurkers are massing in the thousands, we can't hold, WE CAN'T... *hiss* Station 7, fire on me. FIRE ON ME! We have been overrun, repeat, position overrun! FIRE*hiss* Where the hell is Command and the air walkers! I need air support now, the kamikaze units are shredding the hovertanks, and we can't stop the siege units without them. *crackle*<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">Outpost thirty seven has been overrun. Omega protocols have been activated. Area sterilized. Redirect any reinforcements to surviv*hiss*</span>Hold the line. HOLD THE LINE! We have to hold the*hiss* Command, this is outpost seven, enemy have breached the walls, fire on me, FIRE ON ME!*crackle*"<br/><br/>He tapped a key, muting the litany of constructs slowly dissolving into a full rout, and then looked up at the assembled gods. "Go ahead, pretend your world is safe, that there is nothing out there to be afraid of. We know the truth, and if we have to, we will hold the line against the masses of beyonders on our own. Now hurry up and make your verdict. I will not wait for it, I have a plane to save."<br/><br/>He stood up, and collected the two bars, reinserting them into his forearms, and then connecting the beleaguered planar forces' severed comm net to the Oversoul. "Oversoul, Lurker war has turned ugly, authorizing core and nova bombs at status red and free, fire on your call. Redirect all available forces to the plane. Keep the Lurkers from the ocean. That is a priority zero objective, all other objectives are irrelevant to ensure that the Lurkers are destroyed wholesale."<br/><br/>He turned and gave the jury a flat look. "Come and watch the show, if you can bear never sleeping again. Or just stay here, where it is safe, and stay ignorant. I have no time for either. Though I should warn you, be very careful about what decision you reach, I have no intentions of dying any time soon, or being cut off from my children. And I will fight to prevent it. I have my mission, I have my Purpose, and I am content with both. Do you, and are you?"<br/><br/>With that last question, he teleported back to the command center, and began directing his avatars counter the armored Lurkers, so powerful they could take a direct hit from a station and not even be fazed, but he suspected that his balefire could damage them. He would personally lead the assault against the main lair.