Abomination (Navigator)

An Abomination is a heavily mutated creature kindred to Navis Nobilite. While technically a Navigator, and able to function as such, the few Navigator Abominations witnessed appeared to lack humanity, instead behaving as if mere beasts, and treated as such if not worse. The standing order of dealing with those creatures is a purge without mercy, as their existence is considered to be rife with pain and only supported by their captors.^[1]

Overview

It was long speculated that after the onset of the Age of Strife some Navigators ended up stranded outside their Houses' ability to recover and still managed to survive and bore lineages unsupervised by Nobilite. For the longest time it served as an idle hypothesis which could irritate some of the greedier sort of Navigators with the possibility of rogue agents endangering their monopoly, and even worse serving heretics, xenos or chaos. However, the truth ended up horrifying them all, as it turned out that untold generations of rampant breeding cast the spawn of those survivors into the downward spiral of ever so progressing mutations, and mental degeneration.^[1]

One such encountered individual was paradoxically recognizable as human by the main feature the Navigators differ from the common man, their pineal eye. It still was able to pierce the veil of reality, and when properly leashed and trained said Abomination came to serve its people, not as a guide among the stars, but as a beast of burden, helping them brave the storms of the Warp.^[1]

After the investigations of a purported unsanctioned Navigator somehow assisting the forces of the pirate prince Jalthas Mettiere, the Abomination was discovered, of atrophied limbs, elongated worm-like body, with no mouth nor any recognizable human features, save for its warp eye. The creature was reported to be treated poorly among its people, not viewed as descending from humans, but as an animal or an organic tool, slaved to and merged with the ship systems, with various pipes bringing it sustenance and removing the waste. Such a pitiable existence, if even the creature still possessed any sentience, brought the ire of Calixis' Houses, placing a grand bounty on not only Mettiere's corpse, but on a destruction of his ship, although it is speculated to be a result of the damage the pirate prince has done to Navigators' business, instead for the empathy for the creature.^[1]

Sources

• 1: Rogue Trader: Stars of Inequity, pg. 130