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Due to their status as a mutant, many Navigators lead sheltered lives, which their high status can allow.{{Fn|20a}} While Navigators may feel threatened by the reaction of some common citizens commoners react with hostility to their the presenceof Navigators,{{Fn|14c}} others react respond either with amusement{{Fn|12c}} or indifference. This uncertainty leads many Navigators to try to hide their nature from the public,{{Fn|14a}} and even if the Imperium might tolerate them, those who don't are found in every corner of Imperial space.{{Fn|4b}} Some [[Space Marine]] chapters such as [[Black Templars]]{{Fn|21}} and [[Red Scorpions]]{{Fn|22b}} openly loathe contact with their Navigators, who ; these intolerant groups would be directly opposed in their to the mutants' inclusion aboard their ships if it were not entirely necessary.{{Fn|21}}{{Fn|22b}} This behaviour is exhibited even among common men of the Imperium, and while many Navigators get a perverse pleasure from strolling down the corridors of ships where on which they serve, on other vessels Navigators seclude themselves to their private spires, choosing not to interact with others;{{Fn|23b}} there is at least one instance of Navigator being forced to do so by overtly xenophobic crew.{{Fn|24}}

Notwithstanding the stigma of the mutant, the proteges protégés of noble houses called [[Navis Scions Scion]]s revel in attention, as it is their trade to be an approachable face of their lineage, and in both by truth or lie to improve the social connections with Imperial society, though often restricted to its higher partitionsechelons,{{Fn|12c}} with an the intent of gaining reputation and thus more wealthy and influential clientele.{{Fn|3j}} In legal matters the whole Nobilite relies on the protection of the Paternova whose word is highly heldin high esteem, often against this that of any member of the Holy Orders of the Inquisition.{{Fn|3e}} As long as the Paternova doesn't does not brand a Navigator or their whole house as renegades,{{Fn|2g}} they may feel as safe as any high ranking noble within the Imperium can. And while While many Inquisitors wait with their decision hesitate to persecute even a single Navigator,{{Fn|4b}} some more radical Inquisitors{{Fn|4a}}{{Fn|25}} or [[Adeptus Ministorum|Ministorum]] members{{Fn|4b}} in their pursue zeal to eradicate the heretic, the mutant and the witch are known to indiscriminately exterminate even those the most vital to the workings of the Imperium.{{Fn|4a}}{{Fn|4b}}{{Fn|25}} Nonetheless, even if the ship's captain is found guilty of treason against the Emperor, the Navigator is granted immunity from any capital punishment that will be incurred on the rest of the crew in their shared guilt.{{Fn|26b}}

Aboard spaceships, while the crew might have their varied sentiments towards the mutant at the helm, including officers{{Fn|24}} the captain however often keep keeps amiable bonds terms with the navigatorNavigator.{{Fn|12d}} Whether out of necessity{{Fn|3d}} or genuine trust,{{Fn|12d}} the navigator Navigator is recognizable recognisable as one of the most important{{Fn|2a}} and staunchly loyal{{Fn|27}} persons on board, often nicknamed the captain's right hand.{{Fn|2a}} Thanks to their importance towards faster -than -light travel many mutinies have been made null due to Navigator's unwillingness to cooperate with the mutineers.{{Fn|55}} There were have been instances of the Navigators instigating the rebellion rebellions or even taking over the ships in question, which however were insofar though these are rare and pursued managed internally by the edict of the Paternova{{Fn|28b}}{{Fn|26f}} to not scar , lest it mar the Nobilite's general reputation.{{Fn|27}} Due to the Navigator freedom of choice of employmentNavigators' economic autonomy{{Fn|2j}} it isn't is not on the whole wise of for a captain to fall out of favour with them, since at any given moment they may relinquish their contract and just decide to abandon the post at the nearest rendezvous with a point of transit,{{Fn|3d}} essentially stranding the crew until another Navigator can be recruited.{{Fn|2b}}

As a polity Navis Nobilite is held a highly influential faction,{{Fn|4b}} which is known for patronage of both persons{{Fn|12b}} and projects,{{Fn|3e}} mostly concerned with matters of explorations{{Fn|12h}} and settling{{Fn|18b}} or re-establishing footholds of interstellar routes,{{Fn|29b}} funding expeditions to unknown space,{{Fn|12h}} bringing colonies back into the Imperial fold,{{Fn|29a}} quelling rebellions in Imperial systems with their private armies.{{Fn|30}} While each house acts as its own separate entity, they all are legally obliged to have an agreement of Paternova to back their decisions up, although this only comes to question when the consensus of allowed actions is broken,{{Fn|3l}} which might end up with the transgressing project being well in motion before Paternova relays their decision. One such enterprise of the expedition out to [[Canis Major]] dwarf galaxy was considered insane by most of the other unaffiliated houses, however when Paternova dictated their edict the fleet was already outside communicative range, and whether their plan to establish a micro-empire in the alien galaxy ended in success or failure is investigated only by the members of this misbehaving house.{{Fn|3g}} On the other hand Navis Nobilite keeps both their secrets{{Fn|2d}} and monopoly on space travel{{Fn|31c}} with absolute ruthlessness,{{Fn|2d}}{{Fn|31c}} it can ruin a career of an aspiring Rogue Trader or even cast their whole noble house into abyss of history if they were found to be in possession of one of secrets of the Navigator houses. Among them the knowledge of lineages, breeding programs and prominent [[Novator]]s.{{Fn|2d}} It is unlikely to stumble upon this knowledge accidentally, as Navigator houses don't speak in gothic among themselves, instead cultivating among themselves unique dialects of forgotten antiquity,{{Fn|2c}} and if somehow someone was even to glimpse upon their mapping system they'd be confused with methodologies utterly alien from those imperial, alongside divergent divisions of the space from classical subsectors, mapped and named only in accordance with their own hermetic systems.{{Fn|19a}} Similarly, Nobilite has their eye out for any technology or method of travel that would verge on their monopoly,{{Fn|12e}}{{Fn|31b}}{{Fn|31c}}{{Fn|4c}} many are outlawed whether on a technical breaking of Imperial laws{{Fn|31b}}{{Fn|4c}} but some just simply as a favour from the [[Adeptus Administratum|Administratum]].{{Fn|31c}} Those that they aren't able to outlaw often are aggressively outbid off the market{{Fn|12e}} and people who acquire any of those items bring upon themselves the ire of Nobilite.{{Fn|31c}}