As the villains are defeated again and again, they start making disturbing technological advancements in order to build stronger minions and creatures of war, and the Hero Factory responded by starting their own research and developments in those fields.
The Hero Judgement Units are the result of the illegal ‘Project Judgement’, a secret operation conducted by a small faction within the Recon Team. The program was falsely indicated under Makuro’s name. The purpose of Project Judgement was to create a standard of elite Heroes that could be deployed in war scenarios where the Hero Factory could not operate or could not openly intervene due to public image.
A Judgement Unit’s creation is very detailed and expensive, and must be done perfectly by designers. As very complex robotic entities, they need the purest Quaza Cores to function.
The construction process does not take place in the Hero Factory Assembly Tower, but in a secret space station called ‘The Purple Comet’. Said ship used to be a Hero Factory research station, designed for peaceful application only, but it was later adapted as a bioweapon factory against galactic law and the principles of the organization.
Recently, a group of mysterious creatures called Brains boarded the Purple Comet and started possesing the units. Having lost contact with the ‘research’ station, Makuro sent a team of Heroes to investigate. There, they discovered everything about the illegal Project Judgement, and informed Makuro.
Makuro decided that the Purple Comet operations were too much of a threat to the galaxy, so he activated the self-destruct protocol from his office at the Assembly Tower, destroying the station and eveyone inside. Only a few Judgment Units escaped the explosion (some Brain-possesed, and some not).
The Judgement Units themselves are unaware of their ‘living weapon’ status. Makuro is interested in meeting with the surviving units to officially enroll them in the Hero Factory (and interrogate them about their creators, so he can get them arrested).