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HER IMPERIAL CONDESCENSION PERSONAL TIMELINE DISCUSSION TIME.
So, when Lord English can't get somewhere he needs to go, he sends someone to do the dirty work for him. We know that the Batter Witch has had her hands in both B1 and B2 for a while now. The question I'm interested in addressing is HOW she went about doing it. She has to have, from her point of view, jumped from place to place one after another. Listing her itinerary, we know she's been to: A2 Session (grub), A2 (Her Imperial Condescenion), B1 (Betty Crocker from here on, raised Nanna and Grandpa Harley), B2 Session (usurped the Black Queen), and B2 (Betty Crocker ruling Earth).
So, let's start investigating by remembering the structure of the Homestuck Paradox Space Multiverse (cf. pic related) On the largest scale we have "The Furthest Ring", AKA Paradox Space, basically the biggest jumble of tangled spacetime imaginable. Everything ever takes place here, one way or another. Dotting the Furthest Ringscape, presumably at great spacetime distances from each other, are Incipispheres. These are where SBURB sessions happen, and are spawned from within existing universes, and as far as we can tell they each form their own pocket universe out in the Furthest Ring with its own timeline. Most of them fail, and eventually end and become eaten by Paradox Space. Successful sessions live here too. And inside of those, nestled in the center of Skaia, Bilious Slick grows to maturity and becomes a Universe As We Know It. Floating in one corner of Paradox Space, bright and leering, is the GREEN SUN. Some (probably a countless number, but apparently not all) sessions and the universes inside of them are trapped in its orbit.
So, how exactly does one navigate this clusterfuck of distinct spacetimes, each with their own spatial and temporal boundaries independent of one another except at special intresections?
>Getting between SBURB/SGRUB/SWHATEVER Incipispheres/Mediums/Sessions The only way we know of doing this directly is to successfully navigate the Furthest Ring. To do this as far as we know you need either a bright temporary marker (e.g. the Green Nova) or a God Tier Seer of Light to find the way. Perhaps most importantly, as Rose said, you also need the will of the gods. You can't find a valid path if they don't allow for one to exist for you.
>Getting from a Session to the Universe that spawned it This one is much simpler. Simply fling yourself through a Skaian Defense Portal. Each one leads to a different spacetime point in the universe that spawned the session.
>Getting from a Session to the Universe they spawned. This is perhaps the easiest of all. Once you beat the game, Bilious Slick is floating before you, and a Victory Portal will appear that will (presumably) let you enter the new universe you've made. Bec Noir immediately broke this for the Trolls, so they were stuck. It is currently unknown if you can "just... sort of reach up and..." fly into Bilious Slick from the outside, since you can see the galaxies and everything. You probably could, but would end up in intergalactic space, rather than anywhere you would want to be.
>Getting from a Universe to either the Session that spawned it or the Session it spawned. Arguably the most important instance of such travel is when the players first enter the Incipisphere. This is facilitated by Entry Items. But there is another way that was revealed in [S] Cascade. EXILE STATIONS We got our first hint of this way back when: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003311 As you can see, the terminal is pointing at the RIGHT hand portal, and the direction can be changed by a key: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005166 We don't actually see this get to see the key turn, but in [S] Cascade (part 2 if you want to skip to it), when Bec Noir grabs the uranium from WV's tummy (poor guy ): Glad he's better) the pointer has been set to the LEFT, and goes directly to the Troll's Session, the one that created this Bilious Slick. BUT! We still don't have complete information. On the terminal we know: (left => Troll Session) (right => ???) We can guess that it goes to the Kid's session. But here's the tipper: How do we know if if went to the Kids' Beta (pre-scratch) Session or the Teens' Alpha (post-scratch) session? Dealing with the Scratch has muddled up these things severely. WHERE does a Scratched Universe Frog reside? While having the terminal send you to the specific session that was spawned by that universe makes symmetrical sense, we can't be sure.
So, using all known methods of inter-universal travel, we should be able to piece together a travel plan that HIC followed. One important thing that everyone probably forgot: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002614 Someone was already in WV's Exile Station, had locked the room with the trans-universe portal, and had already drained it of power, presumably to leave the B1 Universe.
THIS is one important part of the link. We can see that at one point she was in B1 (had to raise two kids, run a corporation, and send Dave that link to the Miracles video), and then she left it through that station. If only we knew where the Station sends you if it's pointing to the right!
Everything else is speculation at this point, but at least valid speculation. Did HIC use an exile station from Alternia to get to the A2 Session? Probably after Bilious Slick was dead. Did she then fly through the Furthest Ring successfully (with LE's instructions, maybe?) and get to the B1 session, fly through a Skaia portal without us noticing, become BC on B1 Earth, survive the apocalypse, then use WV's station to get back to the B1 session and catch a Red Skaian Portal just in time to get to B2 Earth, then be Betty Crocker, take over Earth, and then ride an Exile station to the B2 Session to usurp the Black Queen?
Probably a far fetched path, but that's why I'm opening up the floor to ask for other people's speculated trans-universe travel paths. I've typed enough to fill a book heavy enough to kill a cat if you dropped it.
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