In this paper, we begin a quantization program for nilpotent orbits OR of a real semisimple Lie group GR. These orbits arise naturally as the coadjoint orbits of GR which are stable under scaling, and thus they have a canonical symplectic structure ω where the GR-action is Hamiltonian. These orbits and their covers generalize the oscillator phase space T R, which occurs here when GR = Sp(2n,R) ...