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The OMAC Project

The OMAC Project is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The OMAC Project rather than just read about it. In short: 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. Overview The OMAC Project is one of four miniseries leading up to DC Comics' Infinite Crisis event.

Key takeaways

The OMAC Project belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The OMAC Project to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The OMAC Project from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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.

Overview The OMAC Project is one of four miniseries leading up to DC Comics' Infinite Crisis event. The series follows the Countdown to Infinite Crisis special, picking up the story where the special left off. The OMACs borrow their name and general appearance from the 1974 Jack Kirby creation OMAC. However, the OMACs 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". In the miniseries, OMACs are people who unknowingly harbor invasive technology in their bodies. When activated, the technology can spy on the hosts' surroundings, control their bodies, or transform them into remotely controlled superhuman beings. The hosts of OMAC act as unwitting sleeper agents for Maxwell Lord. The OMACs are guided by the satellite Brother Eye, as in the original version. Brother Eye is depicted as an artificially intelligent satellite built by Batman to observe the members of the Justice League. Lord takes command of Brother Eye and uses it and the OMACs to stalk and attack the world's superheroes and supervillains, with the avowed goal of reasserting humanity's control over the world.

Plot Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) is dead, Booster Gold is in the hospital, and the Checkmate organization, led by Maxwell Lord, continues its operations against DC's superheroes. Booster Gold wakes up and, after learning of Ted Kord's disappearance, decides to investigate with the help of Wonder Woman. OMACs (Observational Meta-human Activity Constructs) have been spotted all over the world and have managed to kill several metahumans. 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. Interwoven through this plot are scenes detailing the power struggle within Checkmate. Checkmate is led by the White Queen, White King, Black Queen, and Black King, each of whom have Knights of corresponding color. 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. Wonder Woman kills Lord to prevent him from continuing to direct the actions of a mind-controlled Superman. Brother Eye initiates a protocol specifically designed to be used in the event of Lord's death and OMAC drones worldwide begin to wreak havoc. Sasha herself is transformed into an OMAC-like being, powered by nanotechnology. She and Batman work to lure most of the OMACs to the Sahara Desert. There, Batman activates an EMP device that disables all of the OMACs, freeing their hosts. The Brother Eye satellite is still hidden and has about 200,000 OMACs under its control. It turns the world against Wonder Woman and the Amazons by broadcasting Lord's murder with no context given.

The OMAC Project: Infinite Crisis Special #1 - "The Lazarus Protocol" In The OMAC Project: Infinite Crisis Special #1, which takes place after Infinite Crisis #6, Brother Eye crash-lands in the Rub' Al-Khali Desert and takes control of two local sentries. Sasha Bordeaux, returning from a successful attack against Brother Eye in space, is tasked with destroying the remains of Brother Eye. Meanwhile, Amanda Waller is appointed the acting Black King of Checkmate. While the Israeli, Russian, and Chinese governments begin measures to retrieve the satellite, Brother Eye attempts to remote link to Sasha and take control of her body, but it fails. Sasha arrives at a Checkmate safehouse and attempts to make contact with Jessica Midnight at headquarters, but is stopped by Waller, who demands to know if Sasha is an OMAC or not. Waller instructs Fire to stop Brother Eye from being reactivated, even if it means killing Sasha or Midnight. As all of the factions reach the downed satellite, Sasha rushes through the ensuing battle to detonate explosives from within Brother Eye's CPU chamber. The computer nearly succeeds in downloading its programming and data files over Sasha's mind when she activates the explosives. Searching the wreckage, Fire and Midnight find Sasha alive and free of the nanobots that she was infected with.

Collected editions The series was collected, along with Countdown to Infinite Crisis and Wonder Woman #219, in a trade paperback in November 2005 (ISBN 1401208371).

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The OMAC Project

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The OMAC Project claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The OMAC Project before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The OMAC Project ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The OMAC Project

In research: The OMAC Project appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The OMAC Project in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The OMAC Project is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2005 comics debuts, Comics about artificial intelligence, Comics by Greg Rucka, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The OMAC Project outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The OMAC Project in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The OMAC Project means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The OMAC Project out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The OMAC Project in simple terms?

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. Overview The OMAC Project is one of four miniseries leading up to DC Comics' Infinite Crisis event.

Why does The OMAC Project matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The OMAC Project?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The OMAC Project.