hapless people on the planet's surface would be kidnapped using a small capsule "placed at will in space. it shot out a large bubble, the being would grab at the bubble or strike at it and be sucked at once into the capsule. then the capsule would be retracted into an aircraft." a victim would then be implanted for up to six months and the helatrobans would "fix him on a post in a big bunch of stuff ... put him on a post and wobbled him around and ran him through this implant of goals on a little monowheel. little monowheel pole trap. and it had the effigy of a body on it." ("state of ot")