Lore story Optic is an omnic soldier wielding a prototype weapon for the Pacific Coalition. He hails from Philippines where he lived his early ‘life.’ He faces discrimination commonly as he is an omnic in the post-omnic-crisis. Optic always wanted to prove that omnics had a place on earth and were not just slaves. He joined an activist group that resorted to terrorism where he got training in Guerrilla warfare. Before he could begin harming innocents he heard Mondatta’s speeches and quit, but the training and knowledge he learned there stayed with him.

Optic joined Helix around this time and he got outfitted in armor Helix and Oasis designed. His tactical mind was quickly noticed and he got most the new tech going to him for field testing. He didn’t disappoint. Finding himself fighting the organization he fought for a year prior. He felt no compassion for them, they were delaying omnic rights as well as raising distrust toward omnics.

His first mission involved destroying a training base. He wanted to prove himself and lead omnics toward a better future with his acts. He wanted to show the world that omnics weren’t just mindless killers. The crew landed on the shore unnoticed, there 6 man crew would need to defeat a force probably numbering in the hundreds.

They took a hill-top position overlooking the training grounds. Optic loaded his rocket launcher and readied for when the bots went out to train. While he was aiming, his crew was creating minor defenses in case they were attacked. They had two electric gatling guns set up on each side of the hill with one overlooking the training base. 6 Rocket launchers with 20 sets of 6 rockets. They had a prototype beam weapon based of tech that helix had bought from Oasis. It shot a small-long range beam. The omnics came out for training and while in roll call, the Helix crew launched a rocket barrage across the grounds. 5 Rockets fired every 2 seconds devastated the grounds killing most omnics on the field. Then a shot was fired back and it hit one of optics comrades in the eye, instantly killing him. He was manning the gatling gun raining hell upon the base. Then another got shot in the head. Optic backed into cover along with the 3 remaining men he had with him. While they retreated, another shot was taken and another man fell. Optic grabbed the laser gun and looked back in the direction that he heard the shots coming from. He saw a spark and half a second later would wiz by him. He took no time to aim, firing his weapon at the area where the shots were coming. He set the trees ablaze, he hoped he silenced the sniper. He backed into camp where he realized how grave there situation was. There communication equipment was on there commander who was on the front line. He instantly took control of the situation and ordered that they set up in the defenses as he knew that they only killed a fraction of the omnics on the island.

He still held the laser gun. His fellow men manned the gatling guns. They saw hundreds of omnics start leaving the base. They opened fire, a rain of terror was hitting the omnics but they still advanced up the hill firing their weapons. This was Optics first taste of war, it wasn’t the fantasy of glory people make it out to be but just full of death and terror. He was overcome by a feeling, a horrible feeling that ate at him. He saw a bullet travel through one of his comrades who quickly fell to the ground, choking on his own blood. His laser was doing lots of damage but it wasn’t enough to stop what seemed like an endless horde. He saw his last comrade fall upon his minigun dead. Optic decided to run for it and grabbed a rocket launcher to fire back while he retreated. He ran as quick as he could back to the boat and got on. The engine roared as he fled away, he turned to fire at the omnics who were probably on the hill, but he didn’t see them. They probably were taking the weapons that he had to leave behind.

This shaped him, he had ended so many omnics on that island but he still couldn’t win. He saw the horror of battle first hand, but he also saw the valiance of humanity, standing to the last man to try to turn around a hopeless situation. He vowed to prove that omnics could be heroes too. He returned to Helix’s Base in Indonesia where he had to report the failure.