ok yall, the one thing that we all need to remember is that, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY the federation does NOT have luffy anymore. oscurucho got it in one of the qsmp livestreams.
and then oscurucho said he was going to message an old friend (which we all assumed was The Watcher)
i believe, however, that we were not sure if this was a current time stream or a flashback, so we didnt know if luffy had escaped from oscurucho and then been taken back by the feds
so this means: if they took him after (so oscurucho had him and contacted the watcher) then luffy is more than likely back at purgatory already and the eye workers are just using this as an excuse to come back and attack?; option two, they took him before, luffy escaped, and in their chasing of luffy, who still hadnt foudn his friends, is when the encounter with phil happens, so the feds take luffy back AGAIN and now the eyeworkers have to get luffy AGAIN
maybe someone smarter can come up with the possible meanings of the two, or when the stream of oscurucho taking luffy happened
i will also say tho, if oscurucho had luffy, AND he contacted the eyeworker there is a secret possibility no3:
they let luffy go near philza specifically to get him to protect him (the eye guy would have seen how much of a protector he is, of course) and knowingly planted this conflict as a way of maybe getting the last winner of purgatory back wtih his pack to join his hunter force :3c
he DID lament that "the whole pack couldnt join in" back in purgatory 2 u kno
(and i will also note that purgatory was the closest to experiencing The End that phil got to in qsmp. points at the ender king hahahaha)