CRISIS OF CONVERGENCE, PART ONE: It Begins!

CONVERGENCE was a nine-issue weekly mini-series published by DC Comics in 2015. 40 two-issue mini tie-ins came with each issue on each week, covering four different time periods of DC history. Basically, the villainous Brainiac, who had evolved into near-omnipotence, assimilated various cities from various alternate earths across time and space at the moment the various timelines had ended and entrapped them in separate domes on a planet that existed outside time and space, called Telos.

What follows is a chronology of events leading into the beginning of the storyline.

CONVERGENCE #0: Before the event known as Flashpoint changed the DC multiverse, Brainiac found his way into the Source Wall and was thrown backwards into the timestream. He was mutated by the effects of various "crisis" events -- first Final Crisis, and then the events of 52, Infinite Crisis, Zero Hour, and Crisis on Infinite Earths -- and became an omnipotent being.

BOOSTER GOLD: FUTURES END #1:  Brainiac uncovered the location of Vanishing Point through coercion of Booster Gold by threatening to kill his sister, Michelle Carter, aka Goldstar.

CONVERGENCE #0: Brainaic proceeded to roam the multiverse, exploring both alternate timelines and alternate realities. He planned to abduct various cities and place them upon a planet that existed outside time and space, which he called Telos. He also created an agent, also called Telos, to watch over his vast collection. The most prominent of cities he collected came from the following worlds and timelines...

NEW EARTH Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to ZERO HOUR #0 Catwoman, who was in the city to steal a $40,000,000 diamond necklace and matching earrings from a spoiled heiress, found herself trapped in the city at the time of the abduction. Aquaman was also trapped, cut off from the ocean before he could return there after a mission. The insane Hal Jordan, also known as Parallax, was in a Metropolis jail at the time of the abduction. Superman was dead at this time.
NEW EARTH Gotham City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5. The Flash Wally West and his twin children were in the city at the time for a family getaway and became trapped within the city's limits. Harley Quinn was robbing the Gotham City Museum of Art at the exact moment Brainiac cut the city off from the rest of the world and encased it in his impenetrable dome.
NEW EARTH 853rd Century Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1.
EARTH-0 Gotham City: Stolen from the current New 52 DC Universe. The only "disaster" from this period was DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH #1, so it seems likely the abduction occurred just prior to this event.
EARTH-0 Neotropolis: Stolen from the year 2039. Entrapped within were the Justice League of Cyborgs, soldiers of Brother Eye.
EARTH-1 Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. Circa April 1985. Barry Allen, who was visiting 20th Century Metropolis at the time, found himself trapped in the city and was unable to return to his wife in the 30th Century. In addition, the beings known as Harbinger and Pariah were in the city at the time of its capture.
EARTH-1 Bottle City of Kandor: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1.
EARTH-1: Cap's Hobby Shop: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. Trapped within were two toddlers named Sugar Plumm and Cicel "Spike" Wilson, who both possessed the ability to communicate through "baby talk" with one another and to other infants.
EARTH-1 21st Century Atlanta: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred not long after HEX #18.
EARTH-1 30th Century Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1, approximately right after the Great Darkness Saga. Only a handful of members of the Legion of Super-Heroes were in Metropolis at the time of abduction.
EARTH-1 Skartaris: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1.
EARTH-2 Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1.
EARTH-3 Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. The dome caused the depowering of the Crime Syndicate of this Earth, and Superwoman was captured by the Metropolis police force, to be executed for her crimes.
EARTH-4 Hub City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. In addition to the Question, the heroic Blue Beetle and Captain Atom, along with the villainous Dr. Spectro, were trapped within at the time of abduction.
ANGOR New York City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5. Home of Lord Havok and the Extremists.
EARTH-12 Gotham City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5. Home of the characters from BATMAN BEYOND.
EARTH-20 (city unknown):  Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5. This is the homeworld with characteristics of pulp fiction. Dr. Fate is this world's primary hero.
EARTH-21 (city unknown): Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5. Home of the characters from DC: THE NEW FRONTIER.
EARTH-30 Moscow: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5. Home of the characters from SUPERMAN: RED SUN.
EARTH-32 Gotham City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5. Home of amalgamated characters such as Bruce Wayne, aka Green Lantern.
EARTH-50 San Diego: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5. Home of characters from the Wildstorm Universe, such as Gen13 and Deathblow.
EARTH-96 Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of the characters from KINGDOM COME.
EARTH-98 Central City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of the Tangent group of characters.
EARTH-162 Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of Superman Red, Superman Blue, and their respective families.
EARTH-216 Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of the Super-Sons, Clark Kent Jr. and Bruce Wayne Jr.
EARTH-247 31st Century Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred sometime after ZERO HOUR #0 and before INFINITE CRISIS #1.
EARTH-395 (city unknown): Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. This is the world where an infant Kal-El landed in medieval England and forged the sword Excalibur from his spacecraft, as shown in SUPERMAN: KAL.
EARTH-462 (city unknown): Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. This is the homeworld of the characters from the Batman and Wonder Woman television series.
EARTH-494 (city unknown): Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of Captain Leatherwing, a pirate version of Batman.
EARTH-901 Gotham City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of the Just Imagine Stan Lee group of heroes.
EARTH-1089 Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of Superwoman and Batwoman and other reverse-gender characters.
EARTH-1189 Gotham City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of the characters from GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT.
EARTH-1191 Gotham City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of vampire Batman from BATMAN: RED RAIN.
EARTH-1890 El Inferno: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #1. Home of the Justice Outlaws.
EARTH-3839 Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of the characters from SUPERMAN/BATMAN: GENERATIONS.
EARTH-A.D. Durvale: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. This Earth was ravaged by the Great Disaster. Home of the Atomic Knights. Hercules from HERCULES UNBOUND was in the city at the time of abduction.
EARTH-A.D. New York City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. This Earth was ravaged by the Great Disaster. Home of Kamandi and OMAC.
EARTH-A (city unknown): Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. Home of the Lawless League.
EARTH-C FOLLYWOOD: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. Home of Captain Carrot and other sentient animals heroes.
EARTH-C MINUS GNU YORK: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. Home of the Just'a Lotta Animals and other sentient animals heroes.
EARTH-PRIME: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. This planet had no heroes except in comic books, save for Superboy-Prime and Ultraa.
EARTH-S Fawcett City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. Home of Shazam and the Marvel Family.
EARTH-X New York City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1. Home of the Quality Comics characters, such as Plastic Man, Uncle Sam, and the Freedom Fighters.
EARTH-FLASHPOINT Metropolis: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to FLASHPOINT #5.
EARTH-INJUSTICE Gotham City: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred somewhere during the events of INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US, sometime before DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH #1.
BIZARRO WORLD (city unknown): Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1.
DREAMWORLD (city unknown): Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to INFINITE CRISIS #1. Home of Sunshine Superman.
QWARD: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred just prior to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1 (or perhaps during the event). This planet came from the Anti-Matter Universe and was home to the Weaponers of Qward.
VANISHING POINT: Stolen from a moment in time that occurred during BOOSTER GOLD: FUTURES END #1.

The plan from here is to do a page on each of the cities and see the events from their points of view throughout CONVERGENCE, where possible. It may not, and likely won't be, in the order you see here on this page. Stay tuned!