The Galactic Mindsea Empire will arise when scientists discover an aspect of reality hinted at in the contradictions of Quantum Physics and presaged as the implicate order of physicist David Bohm.
There is another way to interpret spacetime, matter and energy, known to imperial patternists as "The Deep."
Employing nonlocal characteristics of the Deep, imperial science will make the breakthroughs in superluminal communications and travel necessary to hold together a galactic empire.
A few humans possess the ability to directly perceive phenomena of the Deep. They are known as mindseas.
This is the question facing citizens of the Empire: can they and should they evolve into deep-level beings? The question explodes into cataclysmic violence as rival mindseas each try to imprint the future with their vision.
All agree that there can only be one guiding mind in the galaxy. Whose mind will it be?
These are the tales of that struggle.