A relative newcomer to the robot manufacturing industry, Locus-Solus burst onto the scene with revolutionary robotic designs, years ahead of Genesis or Hanka. Locus-Solus started small, expanding when they narrowed their assembly line to producing high-end gynoids. Word got out that the Locus-Solus prototypes were so human-like to pass a cursory examination and that the company had links to politicians and organized crime. However, there was speculation as to the extent of their realism. Public opinion frowns on firms that manufacture sex robots, so most won’t publicly offer them, allowing their customers to modify their companion robots illegally. Apparently, Locus-Solus offered their prototype Hadaly gynoids pre-modified to contractors. To avoid local regulations and decency violations, Locus-Solus shifted all production onto a multi-national ship anchored north of Japan, in international waters, where they are able to manufacture their gynoids unrestricted, though they do still operate a Japanese HQ in Berutarube, in the Kuril Islands.
The fall of Locus-Solus began after the secret to their dolls' immense quality slipped. Locus-Solus had refined a technique Hanka had invented, in which many copies of a person's ghost are illegally made at the cost of destroying the person's brain, though Locus-Solus's technique yielded better results. Locus-Solus's Hadaly type gynoids were more prone to malfunction than models made by Hanka, going berserk and killing their owners before destroying themselves. This was later revealed to be due to the girls whose ghosts were copied into the gynoids having been instructed to make the robots create trouble to draw police attention to Locus-Solus. The string of murders perpetrated by these robots drew the attention of Section 9, as the victims included a crime boss that allegedly supplied girls to Locus-Solus, a high-ranking politician, a retired Public Security officer, among other officials, and was consequently speculated to be a terrorist incident. The company could not cover its tracks fast enough and ultimately collapsed when the case became public.