So, I learned the hard way that I need to provide them with a path through my base. In this screenshot, I re-activated a disabled spawn point (four of them, actually) at the southern end of my base. they all took off to the north.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1BvkqXERgRiRUE4dXZqSFloMUk/view
I am going to make some changes to my base so they have a nice, clean path to go where-ever they need to.
I am having a lot of fun with this mod and like it a bunch.