Planet OMCOM

When I first started writing Rome's Revolution, I had planned for OMCOM to be a major character. However, at the time, I was only anticipating writing one book. I had no clue that MINIMCOM ever existed, let alone would develop into a fan favorite. At the end of Rome's Revolution, OMCOM is left orbiting the remains of Tabit and contemplating his reason for existing. He makes guest appearances in The Ark Lords and Rome's Evolution but that is all they are.

If you think back to how we left him at the end of Part 1 of Rome's Revolution, OMCOM's master design for the VIRUS units that eventually destroyed the Stareater was a fully functional memron per VIRUS unit . Because of the power of the exponent, the number of memrons exceeded then dwarfed OMCOM's original core structure. As a result, OMCOM acquired an incalculable amount of processing power. Because each VIRUS unit had a PPT Transceiver in it, OMCOM was able to build a support structure as wide as the orbit of the Earth. However, he allowed mutations to occur. Each of those mutations eventually resulted in an autonomous entity, thousands actually, that went off to parts unknown. There was still a tremendous amount of computing structure left. OMCOM decided it would be easier to manage the physical elements of his new form by coalescing into a spherical structure which eventually became known as Planet OMCOM.




The purpose of the mutations was revealed at the end of The Ark Lords but the actual results of the experiment will only be known when I release The Milk Run late this year or early next year.