The universe is vast and without bounds, and the Erudition encompasses countless. Geniuses have their own ways with words as the ordinaries have their own self-satisfactions. Aside from those personally received by the Genius Society due to their extraordinary talents, there is another organization that is motivated by the Erudition and tirelessly continues its studies and research known as the Intelligentsia Guild.
All personal bias aside, the hard work of the Intelligentsia Guild deserves a degree of respect. The Nous's club is filled with strange people, lunatics, lone wolves, anti-social geniuses, and people with social disorders. Though they continuously produced astonishing findings, they never share this knowledge with the outside world, let alone publish it. (With this book as an exception). The philosophy of the Intelligentsia Guild is to instead communicate and share: Knowledge is a type of hard currency and miracles are only brought about when currency is in circulation. So, they would exchange knowledge for wisdom and formulas for recipes. The IPC accepted and sponsored them in a very generous fashion, lending them the near-infinite powers of the IPC and the technology to move across worlds. The scholars traverse across many worlds and collect all the valuable knowledge, turning these into a commodity.
The Intelligentsia Guild is more like a commerce group when compared to ordinary researchers. Their structure is built upon basic individual organizations of "schools," each responsible for their own earnings and expenses. The scholars would research and trade the knowledge they've acquired in their area of expertise, trying to obtain truly priceless treasures this way. The following are a few more renowned schools for the reader's perusal:
The Synesthesia School is undoubtedly the school that has made the greatest contribution to the galaxy. For a very long time, communication has been a critical issue that has troubled the IPC. The foundation of any trade is its contract. However, the drafting of a contract requires mutual acknowledgment of its terms and there is a long and complicated list of languages spoken by intellectual lifeforms. The researchers of Synesthesia School worked to build a common thought bridge between the different species known as the Synesthesia Beacon that's widely used today.
Thanks to the Synesthesia Beacon, all body movements, flash signals, sound vibrations, or the change in odor molecules — any sort of signal that holds meaning will be converted into a thought pulse and translated into a comprehensible language. The first obstacle of communication has been overcome. The IPC used the Synesthesia Beacon as the foundation and built a giant database, storing the speech and vocabulary of almost a hundred million languages. Inscriptions are no longer a mystery.
It is said that the IPC is still paying the Synesthesia School a hefty licensing fee each quarter. This school has the wealth of a nation. A reliable contact has informed the writer that the next research topic of the Synesthesia School will be ultra-long-range remote communication technology. This technology was already invented by Elias Salas, member #56 of the Genius Society, and put into the use of the Genius Society over a hundred Amber Eras ago. But of course, the geniuses encourage the average Joe to continue to develop their own erudition.
This school views the galaxy as a large ecological observation subject. They are obsessed with studying the void song whale, radiant jellyfish, and other organisms of the galaxy. The school earned its recognition for the discovery of the Celestial Comet Wall. The IPC was exhilarated to hear the confirmation that this was an ancient creation of Qlipoth, Aeon of Preservation. They paid the school an incredibly large sum of money, once again proving the old saying of "work smart, not hard" to be correct.
The Candelagraphos is the printing department of the guild. They are made of countless authors, transcribers, typists, programmers, and workers who produce books. This school is founded upon the noble gesture of altruism, surrendering selfish scientific research and throwing themselves at the grand service of sharing wisdom with more people. The science of the Intelligentsia Guild is gathered here and organized into books to be published and sold to all the worlds. The most famous series is definitely the Traveler's Guide.
This is a school passionate about galactic exploration and archaeology. They are always heading to the most desolate planets and exploring the most dangerous ruins. Try to imagine a group of scholars armed to the teeth leading a dozen mercenaries out of an exploration vessel and crawling in and out of the crevices of ancient buildings that have been forgotten for countless Amber Eras. They would leave behind the few fools that accidentally triggered various traps as an offering. Upon reaching their destination, they would dig up valuable artifacts and ancient writing before calmly laying down explosives and opening a path made from total destruction. They would then happily board their ship and leave... Some say they look more to be mercenaries than scholars, but that's up to each person to interpret.
This is a new school reformed from the bankrupted Psychology History School. Its original purpose is to find the influences of disturbance and patterns of change hidden throughout history, and then make predictions for the future. However, they've become a group of scammers that use a series of complex "calculations" for fortune-telling. The reason I've included this school is to wrap up this interesting piece of writing with a funny joke.