A Bit Of A Puzzle...

Whatever could this legend mean? 

Even the illustration of the Carp operative looks confused...

 

Operatives Returned To Ancestral Home

 

Says here --  https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/09/10/king-charles-iii-sea-lamprey-pie/69482062007/   -- that some of our Lamprey operatives here in the Great Lakes have been selected for shipping -- killed and frozen -- to be eaten in a pie by King Charles III of England in some sort of Naked Ape CEREMONIAL RITE.  I'm not clear on whether all new British monarchs are required to consume Lamprey pies or if Charles JUST HAPPENS TO LOVE EATING THIS SPECIES.  Either way, the pie is being made and consumed, no doubt at horrific expense.

It's interesting to me that the rapacious, acquisitive landscum have managed to COMMODIFY our aquatic operatives while simultaneously DEMONIZING them as an invasive species.  The remarkable Sea Lamprey, deployed to the Great Lakes to protect local fish from being OVERFISHED here in our Conspiracy Zone, has successfully worked here for DECADES.  Meanwhile, those same ladies have been HUNTED TO EXTINCTION in their ancestral lands, so that when the royal family wants some Lampreys on the dinner table, they have the chef call Michigan.

Now, do the Windsors have their own private preserve of Lampreys, as the British aristocracy has done with the Deer and the Fox for centuries?  Apparently not.  Does any good-hearted Michigander think to ship some LIVE Lamprey operatives in healthy breeding condition to the UK?  Apparently not.  No.  AT THE SAME TIME they decry us as noxious invasives, they HOLD US HOSTAGE and ship us back home DEAD, for ruinous fees, like so many ears clipped off kidnapped members of the Getty family.

They think they're so slick.

BUT WHO HAS THE LAST LAUGH?  We do, as the demonized, yet commodified Lamprey is eagerly consumed by the new king...who to us is JUST ANOTHER RECRUIT FOR OUR GLORIOUS CAUSE.  The fully-aquatic ghost of Henry I of Britain -- reputed to have died of eating too many Lamprey pies -- is smiling in approval today.

EAT UP, CHARLES.