Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20160910160305

The Dominion has a complex tracking and identification system for every single soldier. This is to record accurate causality reports and to track whos dead and whos not.

Now you would think they would have MIAs but they don't for multiple reasons. One they believe i fighting to the very death unless retreat is ordered (For example if the generals see defeat is imminent and want to preserve at least a few army groups) or if the mission has been completed. On rare occasions a lower ranking officer will order a retreat or order a last stand.

Although in the confusion of battle a few soldiers get 'lost' the dominion will not mark them 'missing' they either mark then as KIA (If sufficient evidence shows that they are or have been dead.) or they mark them as 'Still in Combat' SIC. This is mainly used for detachment of troops that where left behind or rebel elements fighting on lost worlds.

They don't even use MIA for deserters, they use 'DFC' (Desertion from combat) and are ruthlessly hunted down seeing as desertion is one of the 23 crimes that lead to execution. 