THE NEGAVERSE

The Antimatter Universe, also called the Negative Universe or the Negaverse for short, is a universe parallel to our own that is both the similar yet in many ways the exact opposite of this universe. Unlike the regular universe, the Negaverse is dominated by antimatter, the opposite of regular matter, with antimatter stars and worlds. In effect the Negaverse is a dark mirror of our universe, with negative versions of familiar stars and worlds where evil doppelgangers of heroes reign supreme.

It is possible to cross between the Negaverse and the positive matter universe as long as care is taken to reverse the polarity of anything or anyone crossing over, otherwise the matter and antimatter would annihilate each other in a massive explosion.

HISTORY

Several billion years ago the renegade Oan Krona attempted to view the beginning of the universe. In the process, he unwittingly unleashed an entropy wave that devoured several billion years of potential energy from the universe. There were two results of this: one is that the universe was born "old" and the other was the creation of the antimatter universe. In this negative universe the world of Qward forms as an evil counterpart to the positive matter universe's planet Oa. Once these two beings become aware of each other, they immediately begin to battle and a cataclysmic, simultaneous strike from both sends the two into suspended animation.

Millennia later the Anti-Monitor awakened and slowly began to consolidate his power on Qward. When he was ready the Anti-Monitor struck, attempting to destroy his counterpart and absorb the positive matter universe into the Negaverse. The heroes of Earth banded together and thwarted the Anti-Monitor, saving the positive matter universe and destroying the Anti-Monitor; an event that was referred to as the Crisis.

QWARD

The planet Qward sits at the center of the Antimatter Universe, the negative reflection of the world of Oa. Where Oa has the Guardians of the Universe, Qward has the Weaponers of Qward; where the Guardians have the Green Lantern Corps, the Weaponers have the Thunderers. The Weaponers of Qward and their Thunderers have battled the Guardians and the Green Lanterns many times of the millennia, and the Weaponers are responsible for the creation of the Yellow Power Ring used by the villainous former Green Lantern, Sinestro. When he was active, the Anti-Monitor was based on Qward.

The Destroyer

The Destroyer was an attempt by the Weaponers to create a new Anti-Monitor. With the help of a group of rogue Nemesinians the Thunderers had collected the dispersed energies of the Anti-Monitor from across the cosmos and the Weaponers were prepared to funnel that energy into one of their own. The effort almost succeeded but was ultimately thwarted by members of the Enforcers of Justice, Justice Inc., and Starcore; though the price of victory was the sacrifice of the Nemesinian heroine Mercy.

The NEGA-EARTH

Earth's dark twin is its opposite in every way. The continents are mirror images of the positive matter Earth, people's hearts are on their right side, and evil reigns supreme. Standing over the Antimatter Earth are the Crime Syndicate of Amerika, the evil doppelgangers of the heroic Justice League of America.

The Crime Syndicate International

The Crime Syndicate of Amerika inspired many other groups on the Nega-Earth; one of which was informally known as the Crime Syndicate International. The CSI were once able to reach the positive matter Earth, thanks to an untrained meta with dimension transport abilities who accidentally opened a portal to the Nega-Earth. They initially posed as heroes and acted as a new incarnation of the corporate-sponsored super-team The Conglomerate, but their evil natures eventually came through and they battled the Justice League International before being sent back to the Antimatter universe. The CSI later joined with the Weaponers of Qward when the latter were attempting to create a new Anti-Monitor. This brought the Syndicate into conflict with members of Justice Inc. and the Enforcers of Justice.

The members of the Crime Syndicate International were:

The NEGA-MOON

Millennia ago a group of evil sorcerers on the Nega-Earth relocated to their world's Moon and set up their own kingdom. While nations battled each other on the world they had left, these people looked out to the stars and beyond with an urge to conquer. Eventually a Queen rose to power and led the armies of the Dark Moon Kingdom out to other worlds, and soon to other dimensions. The Dark Kingdom armies attempted to cross to the positive matter universe, which caught the attention of the Nemesis Planet. The Queen knew that the armies of Nemesis would oppose her and devised a plan. The Dark Queen sent her champions to do battle with the Nemesis. While he was engaged in combat with these beings, her armies swept across the Nemesis planet. The Nemesis was soon faced with a choice, surrender himself to the Queen's forces or see his people slaughtered by her armies. The Nemesis surrendered and became her prisoner. With the Nemesis out of the way, the Queen sent her strike force into the positive matter universe. She was met by a group of powerful warriors that beat back her armies and her war with the positive matter universe reached a stalemate.

This stalemate lasted until a little over decade ago, when the Anti-Monitor awakened and slowly began to consolidate his power on Qward. His renewed presence gave strength to the forces of the negative universe and the Queen once again launched her own attack against the positive matter universe. Her victory was assured except for the reincarnations of the warriors that had defeated her millennia before. These forces of good struck back and eventually defeated the Queen in her home plane. The heroes returned home triumphant, and in the wake of their victory the Nemesis was freed from his millennia-long captivity. He wreaked a terrible vengeance upon those of his captors who remained in the Queen's palace.

The remnants of the Dark Moon Kingdom were destroyed when the Crime Syndicate of Amerika established their Panopticon headquarters on the Nega-Moon.

The NEMESIS PLANET

In the wake of the first titanic struggle between the Monitor and Anti-Monitor was born a new world, one of neither positive nor negative energy. This new world existed as the balance between Oa and Qward, between Positive and Negative, between Good and Evil; it was Nemesis.

As both the Guardians of Oa and the Weaponers of Qward amassed their forces, so too did a balancing force come to be on Nemesis, and at the head of this army was the Nemesis. From amongst the nobles of the planet, one was selected to become the living embodiment of the balance and this noble became the Nemesis, avatar of the balance. Thus was the way of things for many ages, the armies of both sides waging their battles to further good or evil in their universes, and the armies of Nemesis intervening only if one side sought to cross the boundary and upset the balance.

Several millennia ago the Queen of the Dark Kingdom on the antimatter Moon planned to invade the positive matter universe. Knowing that the forces of Nemesis would oppose this, the Queen led her armies in a surprise attack against the Nemesis planet. Faced with the potential slaughter of his people the current Nemesis surrendered and was taken back to the Nega-Moon as the Queen's prisoner. Without their leader, the Nemesinians were not able to intervene in the Dark Kingdom's invasion of the positive matter universe (the invasion was later thwarted by a group of warriors native to that universe).

The loss of their leader and the personification of the Nemesis power the Nemesinians were directionless. Factional warfare broke out as different groups sought to become the new leaders of Nemesis. The winning faction did so by allying themselves with a race of energy-powered beings. As part of their alliance the victorious leaders of Nemesis would marry the leaders of their new allies. This introduced a new source of power for the Nemesinians, and with their new power they began to seek to reclaim their purpose and place. Unfortunately without the true Nemesis to provide the instinctive connection to the balance the Nemesinians began to drift from their original cause.

Once the guardians of the balance between the Matter and Anti-Matter Universes, over the ensuing millennia the people of Nemesis went from this original purpose to one where they would pass judgment over any world they saw as having become too evil or too good. As cosmic beings, the coming of the Nemesis would have an effect that preceded their arrival. On planets that the Nemesis targeted, events would begin occurring that mirrored prophecies of doom or the end of the world on that planet. Most recently, events on Earth drew the Nemesinians to that world leading to the crisis known as Revelations.

The heroes of Earth defeated the Nemesinians, preventing them from passing judgement on the planet. Among the heroes was the true Nemesis, who had been on Earth since escaping from the dungeons of the Dark Kingdom. Now empowered as the Avatar of Justice, Nemesis took control of his people once more, intent on returning them to their original purpose. For a short time the Nemesinians were a force for justice in the universe, but unfortunately it did not last long. The Nemesinians were left leaderless again when the Nemesis was banished from the universe by the Fates for what they judged was a transgression of his duties as Avatar of Justice.

The people of Nemesis have once again begun to turn against each other. One group of rogue Nemesinians allied with the Weaponers of Qward to attempt to restore the Anti-Monitor, which they hoped would restore the Nemesis planet to its original position as the balance between the positive and negative matter universes. This effort was thwarted but did not quell the unrest on the Nemesis homeworld. In the potential future that the Nemesinian Mercy came from they were still embroiled in a centuries-long religious war between the Traditionalists (those who believed Nemesis' return was a hoax, a false prophet sent to test their faith) and the Reformers (who believed that Nemesis was the true voice of Justice and worship him as such).

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