Void Gate Question

[Leblanc]

Ive been playing alot as R'yleh lately and I think they're good fun excpet for one thing: how to properly use the void gate. When Im lucky I really love it. The sacred creatures, even the kinda sucky ones, can help out a lot. My problem is protecting the starspawn that enter the site. Ive tried assigning starspawn body guards, but they refuse to use mind bLast and so will get annihilated by most anything that can move and so if I am attacked by anything more than a lone otherness I will lose all of them. In my current game Ive already lost Cthgul and a generic starspawn priest (who had gotten to void summoning 10 before he was killed) and any help would be apprciated.

(By the way, I did use the forum search and the only thing I could find was get the hero to use ritual of returning which dosent work in the home province.)