Brother Eye, the artificial intelligence directing the OMAC drones, initiates a protocol specifically designed to be used in the event of Lord's death and OMAC drones worldwide begin to wreak havoc and destruction. Lord is then killed by Wonder Woman (in the pages of Wonder Woman #219) to prevent him from continuing to direct the actions of a mind-controlled Superman. Through his machinations, Black King Maxwell Lord becomes the only leader of the organization, despite being double-crossed by one of his own Knights, Sasha Bordeaux. Checkmate is led by the White Queen, White King, Black Queen and Black King, each of whom have Knights of corresponding color. Interwoven through this plot are scenes detailing the power struggle within the Checkmate organization itself.
Batman and Wonder Woman investigate the OMACs while Booster, after meeting Guy Gardner in space, decides that he would rather investigate Ted Kord's disappearance with other former members of the Justice League International. OMACs (Observational Meta-human Activity Constructs) have been spotted all over the world and have managed to kill several metahumans. Booster Gold wakes up and, after learning of Ted Kord's disappearance, decides to investigate with the help of Wonder Woman. ( June 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īlue Beetle is dead, Booster Gold is in the hospital, and the Checkmate organization, led by Maxwell Lord, continues its mysterious operations against DC's superheroes. Please help improve this section if you can. The specific problem is: needs improvement: remove jargon and improve for general readership. This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The OMAC Project has numerous tie-ins with other titles, including Action Comics #829 Adventures of Superman #642 Aquaman #35 Birds of Prey #83 Firestorm #18 JSA #76 Hawkman #46 Manhunter #13-14 Robin #143-144 Superman #217-219 and 222 and Wonder Woman #219-221. The OMAC Project ends with an autonomous, intelligent Brother Eye satellite commanding over 200,000 OMACs and seemingly planning war on the world's superheroes, starting with the worldwide broadcast of Maxwell Lord's death at the hands of Wonder Woman. Lord uses the OMACs and Brother Eye to stalk and attack the world's superheroes and supervillains, with the avowed goal of reasserting humanity's control over the world. Before the beginning of the miniseries, Maxwell Lord has already secretly captured Brother Eye from Batman and turned the satellite toward the end of coordinating the OMACs that Lord now controls.
This miniseries portrays Brother Eye as an artificially intelligent spy satellite originally built by Batman, not to control the OMACs, but to observe the members of the Justice League. In this 2005 miniseries, however, Brother Eye differs from its 1974 inspiration. The OMACs are guided by the "Brother Eye" satellite, as in the original 1974 Kirby stories. The human hosts of the OMAC technology act as unwitting sleeper agents for former Justice League associate Maxwell Lord. When activated, the technology can be used to spy on the human hosts' surroundings, control their bodies or transform any of them into one of a visually identical set of remote-controlled superhuman beings. In the miniseries, OMACs are people scattered across the world who harbor invasive technology in their bodies but do not know it. However, the OMACs in this 2005 miniseries differ from the original in other ways, including the term underlying the acronym that forms their name: in Kirby's stories, "OMAC" stands for "One-Man Army Corps", while in this miniseries, "OMAC" stands for "Observational Metahuman Activity Construct" (constructed backwards from the Kirby acronym as a form of backronym). The OMACs mentioned in the title borrow their name and general appearance from the 1974 Jack Kirby creation OMAC.
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The series directly follows the Countdown to Infinite Crisis special, picking up the story where the special left off. The book is one of four miniseries leading up to DC Comics' Infinite Crisis event. The OMAC Project is a six-issue American comic book limited series written by Greg Rucka with art by Jesus Saiz and published by DC Comics in 2005. Cover to The OMAC Project #1, art by Jose Ladrönn.
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