24 August 2013 - Opabinia Alliance 2

Another clue is the destruction of the Guardian’s hard drives. Official “for security” explanations are silly, because even if there were no other copies of the data at first, the negotiation left ample time to make them. Opabinia is an alliance of military message-readers, so I conclude that they find themselves at war and follow the message-sending theory of warfare. The message is “Gimme your lunch money.”