In the aftermath of The Battle of Nurn Forest, Zoltep Zann, one of the alchemists, was the one to put the Zamonium Nugget inside General Ticktock. This he did under a blanket so that no one but him knew where it was inside General Ticktock. When General Ticktock commanded The Copper Killers to kill their creators, Zoltep Zann managed to escape.