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The arranged marriages between Houses are influenced by the webs of inter-House politics. Even those married off to another House, taking on their name, will more than likely return to their birth-House to be interred in their bloodline's crypts. Other Navigators might make a formal announcement renouncing their former house, fully embracing the one they married into in order to abandon a failing House they were born into.{{Fn|69}}
Few Navigators are ever bred easily, and their children are incredibly precious commodities — being the currency with which to purchase the future and prosperity of their House. Typically after After a century or two of service, a Navigator will typically be called back to their House 's holdings to be married off — being shuttled off for an arranged marriage pairing in order to have childrenbreed for the good of their Paternova's financial empire.{{Fn|1a}} These The selection of these pairing can be end up being very carefully selected affairs that take chosen, taking into account multiple any number of various factors such as genetics of their bloodlines, political manouveringmanoeuvring, business deals or transactions, alliances between Houses,{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|69}} even consulting [[Imperial Tarot]] readings,{{Fn|69}} all with the goal of maximising the profit or genetics of the House.{{Fn|1a}}
===Biology===