Yes, exactly! The changes made were very deliberate! I think you know the person who helped to change our history - which was actually so that we would be...very good at sgrub, basically? Among other reasons.

But you should know about him at your current point! He's the one who got you all to create the green sun.

[ Hey she had nothing to do with the Beforus/Alternia differences! Mostly. ]

And yes, exactly! They weren't at all like we are. And that is why we lost the game the first time around, apparently. ...Though really, I think it might have had something to do with all the interpersonal problems, too.