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One element of his sequence is dated earlier than he places it: he puts the move to the Astrafteri Affinity after Ordo Malleus' collapse of 9 March 2016, but the guild's own thread listed Astrafteri as its alliance on 11 February 2016, a month before{{cite:thread-109319|post #13, ThePastryMaster, 11 Feb 2016, quoting the opening post}}. The Hax–Libertas–Blacklisted bloc was described repeatedly at the time. A June 2016 post described a "rule of two" with [[Libertas]]: "This enemy, known only has 'Hack Forums' quickly established their rule through military might... Soon after, another guild, Libertas, joined the surge. The two guilds crushed all opposition and still rule with an iron fist."{{cite:thread-133666|post #1, 26 Jun 2016}} A member of UltimateXeons wrote the next day that "our alliance with Hax and Lir (we are UXs) is gonna let the three guilds keep their territory... without anybody really taking it unless one of the guilds leaves or breaks the alliance"{{cite:thread-133666|post #13, 27 Jun 2016}}. "You do realize Hax has not been a one many army in ages?", a poster objected in August 2016. "They work with Lir and Bla in order to hold territories."{{cite:thread-143392|post #12, 9 Aug 2016}} Blacklisted [BLA] — founded 19 Jan 2016 under NeonRider and Naraka00 — stated the arrangement from the other side in its own recruitment thread, under a heading reading "ALLIANCES AND ALLIES": "We are allied with Libertas (Lir) and Hackforums (Hax)."{{cite:thread-131893|post #1, as revised 15 Sep 2017}} In March 2017 a defender of Hax asked its critics "are Lir, BLA, UXs somehow exempt?"{{cite:thread-179383|post #7, 1 Mar 2017}}.

− On 8 June 2016 Hax held 94 territories{{cite:thread-130386|post #1, 8 Jun 2016}}. By 23 September 2016 HackForums held 146 of the map's ~332 territories, nearly two and a half times the next guild (Libertas, at 60), with Hax, Libertas and Blacklisted together on 228{{cite:pre2018-territory-snapshots|pre2018-territory-snapshots.json — Wayback Machine capture of the Wynncraft v1 API guild leaderboard, 23 Sep 2016}}. Its peak ran higher still: a May 2017 forum thread title asked why Hax had "MORE THAN 300 TERRITORIES", and in 2020 a player put the maximum "closer to 350", "when they owned the whole map"{{cite:thread-265297|post #18, 4 Apr 2020}}.

+ On 8 June 2016 Hax held 94 territories{{cite:thread-130386|post #1, 8 Jun 2016}}. By 23 September 2016 HackForums held 146 of the map's ~332 territories, nearly two and a half times the next guild (Libertas, at 60), with Hax, Libertas and Blacklisted together on 228{{cite:pre2018-territory-snapshots|pre2018-territory-snapshots.json — Wayback Machine capture of the Wynncraft v1 API guild leaderboard, 23 Sep 2016}}. Its peak ran higher still: a May 2017 forum thread title asked why Hax had "MORE THAN 300 TERRITORIES"{{cite:thread-189768|post #1, thread title, Hide007, 22 May 2017}}, and in 2020 a player put the maximum "closer to 350", "when they owned the whole map"{{cite:thread-265297|post #18, 4 Apr 2020}}.

The bloc appears to have had no name while it existed. A contemporary corrected the UltimateXeons member by calling it "a mutual land agreement" rather than an alliance{{cite:thread-133666|post #16, 28 Jun 2016}}; a Libertas member who asked his own guild owner "the name of our alliance" in August 2016 received no answer anywhere in the thread{{cite:thread-119596-p08|post #152, 9 Aug 2016}}; and no alliance thread was ever posted for the bloc{{cite:forums-wynncraft-com-forums-guilds-72-prefix-id-82-order-post-date-direction-asc|complete census of Alliance-prefixed threads, page 1}}{{cite:forums-wynncraft-com-forums-guilds-72-page-2-prefix-id-82-order-post-date-directi|complete census of Alliance-prefixed threads, page 2}}. The label "Hax & Co" is retrospective: Drew1011 used it in August 2018{{cite:drew1011-storytime|L1086, L1097, composed 30 Aug 2018}}, and the earliest public use is a July 2019 post listing "Federation, Hax & Co, Coalition" among Wynn's mega-alliances{{cite:thread-252647|post #5, 21 Jul 2019}}.

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