Great, I'm spectacular, it's fine, my descendant's an idiot that I'm sure is planning something brainlessly selfless.

[Focus, Ardyn.]

Never mind. It's safe to say with what we know at the moment that pirates under that flag are an actual threat, but this could be any myriad of things. The network could be using the sigil alone just to add to the staging, for example. The whole situation could be manufactured by the Counselor or perhaps whoever he answers to.