It's a mystery to everybody.  :-)<br/><br/>(Obviously, the fact that the spell effect used is useless against constructs is a serious design flaw.  On the other hand, this thing isn't exactly designed to be replicated anyway.  There's no plans in Omik's journals, but they do speak of some vague "project" for which the book De Vernis Mysteriis was used as a primary source.)