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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 6250563" data-attributes="member: 8530">He smiles and replies, &quot;It is a clockwork man, it even made a loud ticking sound until we put a magical sound suppression device into it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Approximately 125 years ago a group of them attacked Versailles.&nbsp; A visiting physician was able to deactivate them and King Louis XV then put them into storage.&nbsp; When Meagan's mother heard about them she made a formal request to study them and three were sent here for examination.&nbsp; She suspected magic, but it turns out there is nothing magical about them, only mechanical.&nbsp; She was never able to reactivate them.&nbsp; When my Torchwood associates first visited here it only took Captain Nemo a few hours to get them working again, he's a mechanical genius.&nbsp; Before they wore over-sized porcelain masks, but Doctor Jekyll was able to fabricate the more human-like heads for them to wear.&quot;We never did find out who made them, other than that it was clearly an enemy of King Louis XV, so was probably Austrian given Louis's role in the War of Austrian Succession.&nbsp;&nbsp; He had other enemies too, but it is the peoples of Germany, Austria and Switzerland who are best known for the watchmaking expertise, so that is the most logical answer.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 6250563, member: 8530"] He smiles and replies, "It is a clockwork man, it even made a loud ticking sound until we put a magical sound suppression device into it. Approximately 125 years ago a group of them attacked Versailles. A visiting physician was able to deactivate them and King Louis XV then put them into storage. When Meagan's mother heard about them she made a formal request to study them and three were sent here for examination. She suspected magic, but it turns out there is nothing magical about them, only mechanical. She was never able to reactivate them. When my Torchwood associates first visited here it only took Captain Nemo a few hours to get them working again, he's a mechanical genius. Before they wore over-sized porcelain masks, but Doctor Jekyll was able to fabricate the more human-like heads for them to wear." We never did find out who made them, other than that it was clearly an enemy of King Louis XV, so was probably Austrian given Louis's role in the War of Austrian Succession. He had other enemies too, but it is the peoples of Germany, Austria and Switzerland who are best known for the watchmaking expertise, so that is the most logical answer." [/QUOTE]

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