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Each member of Navis Nobilite debates conditions of their contract with the fleets' owners on their own, there is no standard agreement only that the employer grants a set share of whatever profits they come to earn in their enterprises towards the Navigator's house, with the navigator's own additional stipulations.{{Fn|3d}} The most deserving Navigators might be given a [[Free Charter]], able to lease their services with utter accordance to their own free will.{{Fn|32}} The loyalty of Navigators to the Imperium is a well noted, and it is not a surprise how few rogue naval powers there exist, if only due to it boiling down to the matter of the coin.{{Fn|2m}} While loyal to the Imperium, their individual employers aren't always a subject of utmost loyalty, some houses choosing to employ their members as spies who'd pick up anything that might allow Nobilite any leverage within further deals.{{Fn|31a}} However there are many houses that either fall into relative poverty or out of favour of Paternova, essentially blacklisting them to any available employers. The so-called [[Shrouded House|Shrouded or Beggar houses]] are forced to the brinks of the known galaxy, where they develop a special sly and opportunistic outlook, that forces them towards less than legal compacts with shadier individuals. [[Remegade House|Renegade houses]], even if they didn't start with contempt towards their extended kin, most end up in spite towards that society that pushed them out. Casting aside their prior allegiances and restrictions of Imperial dogma, they fully devote their services to whatever power of discord, criminal or heretical is the highest bidder.{{Fn|2g}}
===Chaos Navigators===
Many [[Chaos]] fleets continue to use Navigators in order to circumnavigate the Warp. This leads them to actively seek out and enslave Imperial Navigators wherever they may be found.{{Fn|65a}} Other Navigators in the service of Chaos have been driven mad and heavily mutated but nonetheless willingly serve their masters.{{Fn|66}} Other Chaos fleets, particularly those closely linked with the [[Gods of Chaos]] will forego Navigators and instead utilize [[Sorcerer]]s and [[Daemon]]s to navigate the Warp.{{Fn|65b}}
==Abilities==
*{{Endn|63}}: [[Hunt for Voldorius (Novel)]], Chapter 1
*{{Endn|64}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20190703103748/https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/11/07/7th-nov-blackstone-fortress-choosing-your-explorergw-homepage-post-1/ Blackstone Fortress: Choosing Your Explorer (posted 07/11/2018)] (saved archive page, dated 03 July 2019, last accessed 24 January 2025) Original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/11/07/7th-nov-blackstone-fortress-choosing-your-explorergw-homepage-post-1/
*{{Endn|65}}: [[Soul Hunter (Novel)]]
**{{Endn|65a}}: Chapter II
**{{Endn|65b}}: Chapter IX
*{{Endn|66}}: [[The Lords of Silence (Novel)]] - Chapter 3
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