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Qward was created when Krona, an alien scientist from the planet Oa, performed a forbidden experiment to try to see the origin of the universe. Somehow, this disrupted the process of cosmic creation, resulting in an additional, opposite universe. Qward is that universe's counterpart to Oa.
Qward was ruled by their universe's version of The Monitor (that would come to be called the Anti-Monitor by Earth's heroes). It was this entity that created the organization of warriors known as The Weaponers of Qward. Although the Anti-Monitor was defeated and imprisoned by his counterpart from the normal universe, the Weaponers themselves continued to rule their world.
Qward's universe has been described as an "universe of evil". However, this might just be a wrong impression on the part of those heroes from the positive universe that have clashed with them. Qwardian society seems indeed to be dominated by a philosophy of selfishness and greed. This could be just the effects of millennia of inescapable rule by the tyrannical Weaponers. There do exist qwardians who rebel against their society's morality, however.
Qwardians resemble humans, except that they are totally hairless and have large, sunken eyes. The Weaponers seem to have a military structure. Their most noteworthy warriors are The Thunderers, flying warriors that are equipped with throwable weapons shaped like lightning bolts that turn into a form of energy called "Qwa" when thrown. This energy is the Weaponers' primary weapon, and is somehow able to hurt even Superman. (The Qwardians have legends of fierce energy-creatures called Qwa-angels; whether these exist or not is unknown.) The Weaponers also possess advanced technology, and were able to create a yellow "power ring" for the villain Sinestro, their ally against their long-time foes, the Green Lantern Corps from the normal universe, who have opposed their attempts to conquer their universe several times. The Weaponers have also clashed with the Justice League of America and other DC comics heroes.
In order to travel into, and out of, the anti-matter universe, one must pass thru special "portals" that instantly reverse the polarity of subatomic particles as they pass through them, since any contact between normal and anti-matter would result in a tremendous explosion that would disintegrate both.
One noteworthy figure within the Weaponers was one General Fabrikant, who was a tactical genius as well as being midget-sized. Fabrikant entered Earth, disguised himself as a child, and insinuated himself into the private life of the greatest Green Lantern, Hal Jordan. He was discovered, however, and his plans of conquest were undone.
When the Anti-Monitor reawakened, he restablished his rule over Qward, and transformed several of the Thunderers into "Shadow-Demons" that he then used to help him in his plans to destroy all positive matter universes, so that the antimatter universe would increase in size, making him even more powerful. Eventually, however, the Monitor was destroyed by the heroes of Earth, and the Weaponers recovered control of Qward.
In one story, the group of supervillains called the Crime Syndicate of America, evil counterparts of the Justice League from a parallel universe, were rewritten as being from Qward, since at the time, parallel universes were no longer supposed to be used in DC Comics stories. However, since then, the Syndicate has been reintroduced as coming from a parallel Earth within the Qwardian universe. It's unclear whether the Qwardian version will ever be used again.
It is likely, however, that the Weaponers will continue to menace the DC universe in future stories.
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