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Waller, who demands to know if Sasha is an OMAC or not. Sasha does not know. Waller demands Sasha to return to base, but Sasha says she will not. Waller then instructs Fire to stop Brother Eye from being reactivated, even if it means killing Sasha or Midnight. When Fire protests such lethal commandments, Waller jabs at her with remarks on what she did for her people in Brazil before gaining her powers and how much she enjoyed it.
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As the series closes, Brother Eye prepares to launch an all-out war against metahumans to protect humanity. Batman works furiously to disable his rogue creation, while Wonder Woman and the Amazons of Themyscira face international backlash over Diana's brutal means. Brother Eye's campaign against the
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Interwoven through this plot are scenes detailing the power struggle within the Checkmate organization itself. 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
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In the miniseries, OMACs are people scattered across the world who harbor invasive technology in their bodies but do not know it. 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
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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 Midnight at headquarters, but is stopped by
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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
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Brother Eye overrides all television screens around the world and broadcasts Wonder Woman's killing of Maxwell Lord. People do not understand the circumstances, only that they are watching Wonder Woman murder a recognized Justice League colleague.
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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
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The OMACs are guided by the "Brother Eye" satellite, as in the original 1974 Kirby stories. In this 2005 miniseries, however, Brother Eye differs from its 1974 inspiration. This miniseries portrays Brother Eye as an
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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.
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until further notice. In the desert, local forces try to gain control of the downed machinery, but are eliminated by a behemoth OMAC created from the two sentries.
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In Switzerland, Jessica Midnight is communicating with Mr. Bones, Director of DEO, when she is quickly interrupted and cut off by Amanda Waller (flanked by
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that forms their name: in Kirby's stories, "OMAC" stands for "One-Man Army Corps", while in this miniseries, "OMAC" stands for "Observational
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OMACs (Observational Meta-human Activity Constructs) have been spotted all over the world and have managed to kill several metahumans.
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Batman and Sasha then work with the remnants of Checkmate and other government organizations to lure the majority of OMACs to the
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remote-controlled superhuman beings. The human hosts of the OMAC technology act as unwitting sleeper agents for former
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in space, decides that he would rather investigate Ted Kord's disappearance with other former members of the
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wreckage, Fire and Midnight find Sasha alive and free of the nanobots that she was infected with.
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Meanwhile, President Jonathan Vincent Horne is being debriefed on the Brother Eye situation by
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only leader of the organization, despite being double-crossed by one of his own Knights,
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Sasha herself is transformed into an OMAC-like being, powered by nanotechnology.
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Activity Construct" (constructed backwards from the Kirby acronym as a form of
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mentioned in the title borrow their name and general appearance from the 1974
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and Wonder Woman investigate the OMACs while Booster, after meeting
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in southern Saudi Arabia, taking possession of two local sentries.
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special, picking up the story where the special left off. The
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is in the hospital, and the Checkmate organization, led by
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Lord is then killed by Wonder Woman (in the pages of
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Jose Ladrönn
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DC Comics
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2005
Sasha Bordeaux
Maxwell Lord
Batman
OMACs
Jack Kirby
Greg Rucka
Collected editions
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1-4012-0837-1
American comic book
limited series
Greg Rucka
DC Comics
Infinite Crisis
Countdown to Infinite Crisis
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