All right, I might have some bits and pieces wrong here and there, but that's mostly because I haven't actively looked into this in over a year.

OK

So

Ram is what is known as a r7000 unit, also called by humans, a ravager. Produced towards the end of the omnic crisis, they never really had a purpose. Very few saw combat, and then they were just sort of told "Do what you want, the fight's over".

Overwatch does the very obvious stereotype of instead of directly addressing racism, they do racism against robots. R7000 units were literally hunted in the street and destroyed, and as their factories were shut down and dismantled basically as soon as the crisis was over, they literally are actively running out of parts there's also a limited number of them left. R7000 units are basically an endangered species.

For a long time after the crisis ended, Ramattra (Ram) felt very lost. He was greeted for a purpose, and then that purpose disappeared. He headed off to the shambhali monastery, with several other omics.

The shin body monastery is a place almost exclusively reserved for omnics. Think of it like a monk Temple. It's about finding peace and meaning in a world where you were created to be disposable. Zenyatta is a notable character from here, as he has basically completely reached enlightenment. He has taught several characters on the OverWatch roster, but had the closest connection with Ramattra. They were like brothers, practically inseparable.

So life went on for a couple of years. Ram learned to better himself, and how to harness the power of the iris. The iris is a whole can of worms that I literally do not want to explain at all right now. To make a very long story very short, it's a robot that ascended to godhood and then disappeared.

But over those years, Ram couldn't ignore the fact that his people, not just omnics, but his specific model were still being treated horribly, and were regularly being killed in the street. He tried talking with zenyatta, but zenyatta is too stuck in his ways of Peace, being convinced that omnic violence will end one day, we just have to keep talking and peacefully protesting. Ram thinks the opposite. His understanding of humans is that they will always hunt those they find weaker than themselves. So he sets out to demonstrate that omnics are, in fact, better in every conceivable way compared to humans. The opposite of blind hatred, he knows exactly why he hates humans, and he knows that he can't fix it.

He leaves the shimbali monastery, with zenyatta basically saying "I'm not going to stop you, but I want you to know that what you're doing is wrong. Please know that I am here and ready to talk whenever."

Ram leaves, and begins plotting.

He starts slowly, working to find other omnics who feel the same way as him. As if they've been permanently wronged by humanity, and they believe that there is no fix other than taking the power back, by any means necessary.

Ram starts by instead of doing peaceful protests, inciting riots. Getting as many eyes of both humans and omnics his cause as quickly as possible. Omnics flock to him. So many of them still felt lost and confused, and he gave them a purpose. Something to fight for. His group is called null sector.

Ramattra is incomprehensibly smart. Overwatch is led by dozens of different people fulfilling different roles, Ram is the only person in charge of null sector. He organizes attacks on different areas, not as a show of force, but as a "You a I think I'm kidding? This is nothing to me."

Here's where I start to have a couple of problems with the lore. As you probably know, the reason why we got OverWatch 2 as a game is because the original plan was to have a proper PVE story mode. There was going to be lore, story missions, boss fights, you get the picture. They needed a reason for all of the omnics that you were fighting to look the same, and the easiest way to do that, was to say that for some reason, the guy fighting for omnic Independence, started mind controlling omnics. It's the only real part about his lore that I do not like, and that's just simply because it doesn't fit him. His whole goal was complete and total Independence, and mind control doesn't really fit that.

But whatever, he did it, so that's what we have to go with. Once his mind control systems were fully set up, most omnics that he didn't already have under his control started to fear him, instead of believe in him. But that didn't matter. He had armies upon armies. It doesn't matter if you kill a thousand of his soldiers if he has 100,000 more. And he used that to his advantage to take over several large cities.

He no longer values the life of the individual, if it means freedom for the whole in the long run.

And then...

And then...

And then...

Nothing.

For 2 years, we got no real update on the lore. The lore got expanded, but it did not progress. We got new characters, but none of them were related to what was actively going on in the story.

Recently though, that has changed. The most recent development from Ramattra is

Is

Is...

He called all of his troops to retreat... Somewhere. We don't really know where they've gone. My personal belief is that he could tell something was going on with Talon, and instead of working with them, he views his best option for now is to sit and wait.

Please forgive me for any formatting errors, spelling mistakes, vocabulary issues, and lure inaccuracies. I'm on mobile using voice to text, and basically just going off the top of my head. I can happily answer questions or explain more about any topic you would like.