Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter One: The Cosmos (section)

===Collaboratives===
''I'll Trade You "Buy Groceries" for "Clean The Zombie Trap"''

About half of all members of the Peerage are independent, working on their own or perhaps with a few beholden. They are not necessarily hermits, but they lack the ability or interest to cooperate with other geniuses. Some are engaged in work that is too esoteric or dangerous for anyone else, while others are just not very sociable. Their connections to their foundation is through correspondence and the transfer of money, research data, and resources.

Other geniuses band together in groups of three to ten, pooling their resources in a collaborative. This grants them a measure of protection against both the dangers of their chosen careers (orphan wonders, pissed off Lemurians, the Illuminated, furious mobs) and from the moral, psychological, and economic dangers of being a lone researcher. Funding for non-mad science is cutthroat enough, but trying to scrounge up money for wonders is a tangled mess, as Inspired draw on their trust funds, struggle to find regular jobs to pay for laboratory space, and plead for grant money from the foundations and fellowships that hold the purse strings of the Peerage. It's vicious business, and a collaborative allows its members to trust at least a few of their fellows.

Collaboratives are usually metropolitan in extent, though modern technology and super-science has resulted in the appearance of entirely digital collaboratives. Feuds between collaboratives are considered poor form in the Peerage, but they can get vicious, especially if two collaboratives lay claim to the same mundane source of funding and neither will back down.