Scholar

Archivist's Excerpt from: Orphan Heights: An Official History, CVI 42.4

In a civilization bent on preserving the best of surviving human civilization, and believing that to be the highest achievement of the mind, the pinnacle of poignant and prestigious positions or professions present or posthumous is positively that of the Scholar, a blanket term for all those working in an academic field under the umbrella of the Grand Colonial Academy of Science.

The collective term for the whole collective of those who hold the title is, naturally, the "Scholary," but this is informal at best, idiot at worst. The title, even at its most accurate, is loosely applied and defines. Technically, any Orphanite who holds a degree from the Grand Colonial Academy of Science is considered a Scholar, but this is often not the case until they hold a Professorship, except of course when it is. In some cases, even alumni of More Academy are generally referred to as Scholars, almost in expectation if nothing else, so there we are. Words mean very little, in the sphere where, one would think, they ought mean the very most.