Omar

The Omar are a group of Heavily nanoaugmented humans in Invisible War, who are notorious for the extent of their augmentation. They have reached a collective consciousness by switching their frontal lobes with a wireless cortical interface. In-game, they are mostly traders who deal in black market goods, most notably black market biomods. Omar are seen in the Seattle enclave, lower Seattle, Cairo, and Trier. Because of the Knight Templar's hatred of human augmentation, the Omar are often targeted by the Knights, most noticably in Cairo. One Tarsus Academy student, Leo Jankowski, becomes a bodygaurd for the omar throughout the game, and by the time Alex reaches Liberty Island he has begun the early stages of Omar augmentation, but he has quit his job and is running from them.

History
In game the Omar are described as having originated from biomod traders in the Russian city of Sverdlovsk, during a period of terrible Post-collapse famine throughout most of Russia. Seeing as how this may have happened as many as 20 years prior to Invisible War, the Omar have already spread to America by the time the game takes place. Their name may be derived from Bruce Sterling's short story "Cicada Queen", where cyborgs called "Lobsters" modify themselves with a Powered Exoskeletons; the Russian word for lobster is Омар, pronounced as "omar".

After Invisible War
Several futures are possible for the Omar. In the Helios ending, the Omar are likely still alive but are obsolete because of the Helios mass consciousness being present in all humans. In the Knights Templar ending, they are probably all murdered by knights during the holy war on all transgenics and biomodified beings. Although presumed dead in the Illuminati ending, this is not confirmed. The player also has an option of a 4th ending where Alex kills all 3 parties, eventually culminating in a nuclear war that kills all life save the Omar, who are suggested to leave earth.

Omar