Subject: That was my understanding, too.
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Posted on: 2013-10-30 15:01:00 UTC

The meteors don't come because you start playing the game, per se. They come because events later on trigger the Cataclysm (I think it was called that?), they all go hurtling at Skaia in an attempt to destroy it, and Skaia's last-ditch attempt to save itself involves opening up a bunch of portals across time and space, resulting in the meteors hitting Earth instead. Skaia probably knows what it's doing opening up portals to those particular times and places, but it's not a direct cause and effect thing. As with everything in Homestuck, it's more convoluted than that. {= P

But yeah, the upshot is that life on Earth is utterly destroyed, leaving the four kids and their guardians as the only survivors and the planet itself as a barren desert wasteland. Then later, the Carapacian Exiles show up and begin to rebuild something resembling civilization. In theory.

~Neshomeh

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