Little is known about The Factory. Excursions into facilities purported to be operated by them have yielded limited results, and no concrete conclusions have been reached except that they seem capable of manufacturing anomalous artifacts — and that they use mass-production techniques to do so.

The largely verbal efforts, comprised of things like genuine humor, created* nonsense, fickle wonderment, or social tricks directed at getting a woman pliant for sex.

*hence, "the factory"