With the time continuing its ever present march forward, it was eventually time to retake the imperial continent and exterminate the elders. Instead of the planned approach, the operation would be carried out almost entirely by drones with only a few 'specialists' taking the field, specifically the drones where of the new N generation drones which had just started production instead of 'live' soldiers. That news was received with cheers all around, for just simply containing the elders for a month had taken much more blood than initially estimated as a million of the troops had already died in battle or deserted.
"Can't we just abandon this place instead of using all this time to win this war of annihilation? Don't get me wrong, I'm aware this is a problem from 'our' world, so we should fix it, but are we not wasting too much time here instead of going home and dealing with the Emergence?"