Talk:The search for Kalid/meta/Glossary

Major Change
With very little thought, the story was originally established as taking place withing a growing "galactic empire" that was imagined as containing hundreds of worlds with human residents. One of the early goals of the story was to include a believable description of important future technological, economic and political features of that "Empire". Originally, the major economic power of the Empire was described as the Spaceship Guild and the Empire was viewed as a political/military organization that arose mainly as a response to the domination of humanity by the Spaceship Guild. However, nanotechnology was also included as a major technological feature of the Empire AND it was desirable to move away from the "traditional" concept of a political/military Empire and move towards using a more original type of organizational system that could dominate a collections of hundreds of inhabited star systems. So, we are going to try to shift away from the "Empire" and put a "Nanotechnology Guild" (or "Nanoguild") in its place as the dominate economic power in the galaxy. Just as the Spaceship Guild has its political organization, the Antiquist Party, the Nanoguild has its own political organization, the