Let's talk about Tomestones. (Theories and Spoilers)

[TinyCat]

We love tomestones don't we?
Special little plates we hand over for better gear, you might have too many, you usually want more of them, once 2.1 starts they're everywhere.

But what do we know about them?
1. Rowena wants them. She'll exclusive-ise things that you want BEFORE you think to want them just to get them from you.
2. They're Allagan. Well, that explains #1.
3. They come in at least 6 different flavours, each with distinct names/patterns.
4. They're somewhat stone-like.
5. They're somewhat tome-like.

So we know this;
1. They're valuable to outsiders.
2. They're more advanced than what even the Garleans know how to make.
3. There's a variety of them.
4. They're hard.
5. They contain information.

Allagan tomestones are Hard Disk Drives. Usually when an outsider accesses enormous amounts of HDDs, that's for something called Data Mining.

(Pt. 1)