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Indeed, within the [[Imperium]] of [[M41]], the [[Inquisition]] consider it their duty to enact violence against the Navigators in the name of vigilance, crushing even whispered dissent with midnight raids, purges of those they deem heretic – a term used often for those [[Navigator House]]s which [[Inquisitor]]s accuse of manipulating the space lanes for their own advantage.{{Fn|68}} For as much as they are feared, Navigators are also desired which is a danger itself. One egregious example occured during the [[Carnivoration of Cel]] in which nobles from three noble houses of the [[Askellon Sector]] fed their stock of [[Mhoxen]] the cerebral extractions of ritually slaughtered Navigators and then ate the Mhoxen as a gustatory aid which was said to grant the nobles purity of senses, allowing to fully appreciate all flavours – it also led to rampant [[Mutant|Mutation]] among the nobility.{{Fn|18a}}
[[Navigator House]]s are ruled by [[Novator]]s, inheritors to their family holdings and it is the millenias-long ambition of every house to one day reach the position of [[Paternova]], the overall ruler of the Navigator Houses and controller of the great [[Navigator Palace]] on [[Terra|Earth]], though few but the most powerful houses have achieved this apex.{{Fn|68}} The Navigator Gene is easily lost through its recessive nature, and can only be saved for future generations through intermarriage{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|10c}} – a genetic reality which has resulted in the complex webs of fealty through which power has concentrated within the houses which truly contest [[Paternova]]; relying upon controlled [[Trade War]] and [[Assassination]] assassination where political alliance fails.{{Fn|68}}
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}}
