What is O.M.A.C. on Arrow?

Welcome to the first official post on my new blog site.  Today, I am going to talk about what O.M.A.C. might be on the television show, Arrow.  This information is brought to you by way of comicbook.com.  They are incredibly well informed on things for the nerd, geek, and fanboy.  If you haven't checked them out...well, don't.  Then you won't have any reason to read my blog!!!

A few weeks ago, Ray Palmer had Felicity Smoak retrieve some information from a burned out hard drive that had been destroyed during the Mirakuru War from last season.  Even though no one had been able to recover the lost information, leave it to a lovely lady to get the job done!

So what was recovered?  What we see is a bunch of military-type machines.  One of them was a missile launcher, which you might remember from season one when it launched a missile at a Ferris Air airliner.  Other blueprints that were recovered were a drone, a one-man tank, and a round machine that was detailed in a blueprint as well.  On each of the blueprints was the name, "O.M.A.C."  So what is O.M.A.C.?

In the comic book universe, Ted Kord is the original Blue Beetle, and the original character that the writers and producers of the show wanted.  But D.C. told them that they had other plans for him, so they opted for Ray Palmer, who becomes the Atom, who is a very tech-savvy hero.  But I'll get back to him...

In current comic book lore, Ted Kord was killed after he discovered that his company was being embezzled from, and after following the money trail, he discovered something called O.M.A.C. that was a project of Checkmate, a black-opts group of the government.  This was led by Maxwell Lord, who was a former United Nations liaison for the Justice League, who doesn't much like super heroes.  This group was able to single out people with super hero powers, as well as infect people with a nanite virus that allowed them to take control of the person 's body and follow them through the Brother Eye satellite.  This brought about the term "One Man Army Corps," hence O.M.A.C.

In the newer version, O.M.A.C. stood for "Observational Metahuman Activity Construct," and it was designed by Batman to keep an eye on superheroes, but Checkmate stole/took it over, and have been using it against the Justice League ever since.

If Arrow tries to follow the comic book's line of story telling, does this mean that Ray Palmer will take over Ted Kord's demise in this universe?  And was that "round machine" in the blueprint Brother Eye? It's still too soon to tell, but it'll be a lot of fun getting the answers! Watch Arrow on the CW, Wednesday's at 8 pm!