The Omega was powered by an extralight Vlar 300 engine, but other than the unusual internal structure, myomers and actuators, featured relatively mundane armor, cockpit and weapon systems. The resulting internal structure was far larger than would be viable for any conventional BattleMech, but in the case of the Omega, resulted in a working superheavy design that stood half again as tall as the 100-ton King Crab, from which the designers had evidently taken a number of cues. Featuring an Endo Steel skeleton larger and bulkier than any seen before, oversized actuators and a new myomer system that involved both larger fiber bundles than standard and the use of hybrid myomers, the Blakists were able to overcome a number of flaws discovered by those who had explored the superheavy 'Mech concept in the past. Īlthough the concept of a superheavy 'Mech had already been explored by the Terran Hegemony centuries before, and later by Amaris forces, with the Matar as example, and the Clans polished that concept launching the Stone Rhino, it wasn't until the Word of Blake overcame the problems associated with such a massive design that the Omega became viable.

Jamais' final stand, but some Omegas also saw service around Hilton Head and in Cairo. The bulk of these 'Mechs were deployed in and around the Devils Peak command post used for Precentor Martial Cameron St. Although the Omega was a prototype, almost thirty of the huge 'Mechs were produced by Skobel prior to the superheavy manufacturing wing of their Russian facility being destroyed during Operation SCOUR.

Manufactured in small numbers by Skobel MechWorks from their facilities in the Russia region of Terra prior to the fall of the Word of Blake, the Omega represented the first truly viable superheavy BattleMech design to appear on the battlefield.

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