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Once upon a time there was a man from Oa named Krona. A man so obessesed with the secret of creation that he built a machine so that he could look back in time to witness the event despite the legend stating that such a thing would cause a calamity.
He built the machine. He looked back in time only for the machine to explode. And where there was once just a universe, there was now a multiverse. Different worlds with their own unique and sometimes very similar history. In one world, Earth never supported life. In another there was life abundence. One world is so similar to our own that the only difference is that there is a stray bottle cap sitting on the curb of 59th and O'Neill in Star city.
There's also a world without shrimp but that's another story all together.
This particular story is about an Earth that is much different than the one we know from Earth-1. Here almost everything is reversed. In this world Christopher Columbus discovered Europe. In 1774, England won its independence from America with General Washington surrendering his sword to Charles Cornwallis. On this planet, it was the actor Abraham Lincoln who assassinated President John Wilkes Booth.
In short: It's a world that's backwards to Earth One. Backwards enough that the Villains on Earth One are the heroes on this Earth. And more importantly.... the heroes are now the villains.