This needs to be its own topic.

@Janos quoted the following text from the book "Alien Interview":

[Airl]: Another important mechanism used in the reproductive process, especially with Homo Sapiens type bodies, is the implantation of a "chemical-electrical trigger" mechanism in the body.

The "trigger," which attracts IsBe's to inhabit a human or any kind of flesh-body, is the use of an artificially imprinted electronic wave which uses "aesthetic pain" to attract the is-be.

Every trap in the Universe, including those used to capture IsBes who remain free, is "baited" with an aesthetic electronic wave. The sensations caused by the aesthetic wavelength are more attractive to an isbe than any other sensation.
When the electronic waves of 'pain and beauty' are combined together, this causes the
isbe to get stuck in the body.

The debilitating impact and addiction to the "sexual aesthetic-pain" electronic wave is the reason that the ruling class of the Domain do not inhabit flesh bodies.
This is also why officers of the Domain Forces only use doll bodies.

This wave/frequency has proven to be the most effective trapping device ever created in the
history of the universe.

The civilizations of The Domain and the Old Empire both depend on this device to "recruit" and maintain a work force of isbes who inhabit flesh bodies on planets and installations. p265

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What Airl is saying here, especially the last sentence, is the main reason why I don't trust the Domain.

I would describe their ideology with the term "practical-authoritarian". They are obviously authoritarian, because they have a ruling class that rules over lower classes of society, which seems to be based on what type of body a person owns. But there's no passion or fervor attached to this concept. It seems to be limited to practicality.

They are obviously lacking empathy, as if for them, psychopathy is the way to climb up the ladder. But not like the sociopaths that are ruling Earth, who also have no empathy, but who additionally are into child abuse and vampirism.

The Domain feels like the Dominion from Star Trek: Civilized and orderly on the outside, but still built on slavery.

I don't like them...

Good insight Manuel. One thing in Christianity that has sometimes missed or poorly represented in its focus on ascetisicm especially within traditions from the desert. These these ascetic practices are cultivated to find ways to moderate the assailing passions (think overemphasis on sex, food, violence, pain, ego driven power etc.). Then they can be held loeesly so as to break the power they have over someone. This is seems as an athletic (read ascetic) preparation for for greater peace in one’s soul now and training for the great state of rest and peace that can maintained in the afterlife. It is growing in the likeness of christ as one is already an image bearer of the same.

Anyway, your analysis from the alien interview and my own as i read it, always makes me think of this desert spiritual tradition.