Omeka was the result of a krogan experimental program over 1,300 years old. He was created on as part of a breed of super-biotic krogan and was to be used as a super-soldier against the turians to turn the tide of the . Being one of the oldest krogan and the last of these super-krogan, Omeka has managed to keep himself alive through the superior genetics he was born with and the advanced implants that he received from an unlikely source.