Time Travel is one of the most dangerous and misunderstood capabilities. The very use of it to travel forwards and backward in time can change history and every use weakens the time-space continuum. The actual facts about altering past events have still not been determined but it is known that you can make minor alterations without issue, large-scale changes cause the creation of a new timeline. The various timelines occupy a grand helix of realities known as The Spiral.
In order to Time Travel, one must leave their timeline, entering a null space known as The Bleed, also known as The Superflow. This very act changes a person, permanently unanchoring them from their own dimension. Even when they return to the timeline, either in the past or exactly when they left, they are no longer natives of that timeline. This seems to be a defense mechanism for reality, as it prevents time paradoxes from occurring. It also prevents the individual from being updated from any changes in the timeline made after their first time-jump.
The only exception to this are those individuals, like The Flash, who draw their power from The Speed Force. Using a device known as The Cosmic Treadmill, speeders who draw from the Speed Force can travel in time without leaving their timeline. Thus any changes to the timeline will instantly be remembered. The Speed Force also allows them to distinguish between the old and new timelines and provides a manner of protection from Time Paradoxes.
On Earth, the father of technological Time Travel is the mysterious individual known as Rip Hunter. Sometime in the future, he discovers the means of moving back in time, through his Time Sphere. He was careless in his early exploits and inadvertently seeded the technology through the timeline, giving rise to the heroes Booster Gold, Cable, and The Waverider; as well as villains Chronos, Per Degaton, and The Time Trapper.
At some point, a huge Crisis occurred and all of reality was altered in a fundimental way. Something important was supposed to happen and it allowed ancient dark forces to gain a terrible advantage. Though the individuals and the changes are still not known, Rip Hunter knows that it was his technology that was responsible.
Now designated himself as the Time Master, Rip Hunter is now on a crusade to return the universe to a proper balance, and in the process remove his Time Travel technology from everyone except is own hands.
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