THE ANIMALS

The ecosystem before colonization was entirely comprised of insects, arthropods, etc. Bugs. Pandaemonium was a desert planet existing too close to its star Luciver to support an earth-like biosphere or any vegetation. THere were no mammals or animals as we know them. This gap was eventually filled by humans and the parasites converting them into the life forms humans needed to survive.

TREES - After colonization, there is plentiful flora and fauna in most of the domes. Humans can be converted into plant forms, and can spread seeds to create more of themselves. These can be harvested or cultivated for human buildings needs, food, etc with the help of horticultural engineers. They create oxygen.

WASTE COLLECTORS - porcine lifeforms are created from the least of the Less taking manumission and becoming waste-eating meat animals. Pigs, Cows, Goats. They eat different kinds of waste material. As more waste is generated, more of these creatures are needed, and more pressure is put on living humans to take manumission before they can afford something better and more dignified. They create Nitrogen and other molecules necessary for life through their waste products.

WATER DWELLERS - fish, amphibians, mermaids, sharks, whales - Water creation. Water is created by these entities fusing hydrogen and oxygen for a form of resperation, and emitting water as waste. Lower Middle class people typically take this form. THe oxygen is extracted from the air exuded by the trees, and the hydrogen source is from industrial drilling out in the dome of The Crime and transported to reservoirs in big balloons by Recyclers (Gypsies).

WORK ANIMALS - Oxen, Horses, Donkeys, Dogs - the Foreman is the primary example of this. Military personnel typically try to buy into this manumission tier, sometimes with the hope that they'll be able to keep helping their living comrades in war. Hard labor workers try to shoot for this too. They do all the hard muscle work of society, transporting loads of goods and people from place to place.

BIRDS - The wealthy who died with too many debts will take this manumission, as it is the easiest and most prestigious. Their duties involve reconnaissance and dome shell maintenance, and keeping the Ether out. Often they don't bother to do this stuff and spend their time preening, leaving the work to the less rich.