"Okay okay. First off, my hearing is several times more sensitive than yours, so I can indeed clarify: The Soviet Union and congruent America, are over three-thousand years from independently designing something of my caliber." The clockwork droid was clearly annoyed that the German though he could be built by 20th century humans. "As for this place, It's pretty fuzzy on what it is exactly. It's a training center, by design, but it also sits on a weak point in reality. People, such as ourselves, have a tendency to uh, bleed in. I think. So it tends to be a target for inter-dimensional empires, omni-potent beings, and various other nasty things. Lot of people also live here."