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> I’m not sure if words ending in -archy are always pronounced with a hard c but it seems like it.

When it is etymologically derived from the greek arkhein (“to rule”) like all of your examples (but unlike, say, “starchy”, which also ends with -archy but has an unrelated etymology), yes, the “ch” sounds like “k”.

But the “-archy” in “omarchy” doesn't come from arkhein, in comes from Arch Linux, so...

My guess is it's based on Arch Linux. Om-arch-y.

I believe the answer is that English is a stupid language. Also, starchy (containing a relatively high amount of starch) doesn’t have a hard c.