Moctezuma — Moc to those he allows to use it — founded the Conspiracy in a parking garage in 1987 with a single sentence that the other founding members still quote but refuse to repeat publicly. He is the elder. He is also the one who decides when the round table meets, which is not as often as the others would prefer and more often than outsiders would believe. Moc does not use digital communication. He does not own a mobile phone. He communicates by arrangement, and arrangements are made through a network of intermediaries that functions with a reliability that embarrasses most modern institutions. He is patient in the way that geological formations are patient. He has been wrong about a target exactly once in thirty-eight years and has not discussed it since.