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A few weeks later, Tangent made contact with Hjaltland's leadership again, notifying them that he had infiltrated Lexington. He had talked down his sentence to two weeks and was allowed to live in Lexington afterwards, developing and running macromod scripts for them. Towards Lexington he made it seem as if he hated Hjaltland and they believed him that. <!-- [Editors note: Hjaltland is still in awe at this incredible misjudgement after years of history detailing Tangents character]. --> Tangent also relayed that he had come up with a plan to steal all of Lexington's groups through malware hidden in a macro script that he'd give [[Sintralin]], the leader of Lexington. Hjaltland had no intention to go to war with Lexington at the time, but given the tensions and the former history of Sintralin, it became very clear that Lexington was not a friend. Tactically striking them was seen as a good thing, especially given that the action was zero risk for Hjaltland. Due to this, Hjaltland decided to not spill the beans and save sintralin, but let Tangent complete his infiltration.
After multiple weeks of setup, sintralin ran the tree farm macro script that TangentialThreat had given to her on September 22nd. Hidden in the over 500 line long macro was a section that merged all of sintralins groups into one of Tangents groups, once the treebot was far enough into the farm. Sintralin had realized what was going on and cancelled the script before all groups could be merged, but she lost multiple groups before doing so. A lot of Lexington was now under the group 'GoodWizards', which was owned by Tangent. This action sparked a lot of controversy and many players demanded admin interference to both revert the damage and ban TangentialThreat for spreading malware.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/71vj2m/a_thought_experiment_in_favor_for/</ref>
Server owner TealNerd refused to revert it, stating that the groups were taken through legitimate means and that Sintralin was at fault. Admin Ribagi decided to overrule TealNerd though and gave the groups back to sintralin. This spiked even more controversy as the rule set still stated that such actions were legal and the admins explicitly said that similar future actions would be legal. Even though the groups were taken from him, Tangent was not banned.
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