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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. 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 pairing in order to breed for the good of their Paternova's financial empire.{{Fn|1a}} The selection of these pairing pairings can be end up being very carefully chosen, taking into account any number of various factors such as genetics of their bloodlines, political manoeuvring, 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===
Due to unspecified reasons Navigators normally keep their Third Eye hidden, covered with a bandana or any other decorative piece.{{Fn|7}} It is noted on one occasion that a Navigator only kept her Third Eye hidden when outside the safe haven of the spaceship, freely unveiling it while stepping aboard, with the notion of doing so only speculated by her peers to come with familiarity of this environment.{{Fn|14a}} In stark contrast, Navigators of the [[Elutrian Confederacy]] proudly flaunt their third eye, instead covering their mundane eyes, considering them to be of no importance to their status.{{Fn|3l}} While the most prominent of the Eye's powers is known to be extremely lethal, it is under full conscious control of the Navigator, being utterly harmless on its own without the Navigator's decision to otherwise be.{{Fn|2f}} When the Navigator dies, with their third eye inner warp gate open, the gate is maintained for an indefinite time, although whether natural decay factors in is unknown and extracted Warp Eyes can become a weapon in the hands of those careful of its danger.{{Fn|45}} Psychically inclined individuals however can still sense the eye even if covered, although no one but the most powerful of psykers notes the effect,{{Fn|15}} and most baseline humans often doubt the existence of this mythical eye, until in a rare occurrence they are given a chance to see it.{{Fn|7}} It however is often met with disappointment as it ends up being an unimpressive peculiarity,{{Fn|14a}} if not a reason to brand and detest them as a mutant on the first occasion of noticing the eye.{{Fn|14c}}
While rare it isn't impossible for a [[Chapter|Space Marine chapter ]] to make a Navigator into a full-fledged Marine, an idea not foreign to Ultramarines, who denoted one of their Navigators as too old to undergo the full initiation.{{Fn|44}} Uniquelly Uniquely the [[White Scars]] Space Marines chapter is noted for possessing high numbers of Navigators turned into full brethren. Those These Navigator Space Marines are rarely committed to battle.{{Fn|16c}}
====The Curse of the Misborn====
Wider Imperial society generally shuns the [[abhuman]]s within their midst. While it's true that many are able to find their niche outside the scornful gaze of common men, the Navigators alone enjoy not only acceptance (albeit often begrudged), but nigh universal wealth among the [[mutant]]s of any kind.{{Fn|4b}} Many factions, political, commercial and private, strive to secure a deal with one of the noble houses of Navis Nobilite.{{Fn|2e}} Some are fortunate enough to enjoy complex bonds of honour, debts and patronage, like the [[Imperial Navy]] or naval aristocracies.{{Fn|20b}} [[Rogue Trader]] dynasties are often tied for generations to specific Navigator dynasties, creating lasting bonds of familiarity.{{Fn|12d}} Even if [[Warp Travel|Warp travel]] is vaguely possible without Navigators,{{Fn|2l}} their contracts are often one of the most valuable commodities after the spaceship, and a few mercantile powers of [[Imperial Commercia]] are known to maintain relations with some Nobilite families.{{Fn|2e}}
Due to their status as a mutant, many Navigators lead sheltered lives, which their high status can allow.{{Fn|20a}} While some commoners react with hostility to the presence of Navigators,{{Fn|14c}} others 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 the [[Black Templars]]{{Fn|21a}} and [[Red Scorpions]]{{Fn|22b}} openly loathe contact with their Navigators; these intolerant groups would be directly opposed to the mutants' inclusion aboard their ships if it were not entirely necessary.{{Fn|21a}}{{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 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 protégés of noble houses called [[Navis Scion]]s revel in attention, as it is their trade to be an approachable face of their lineage, and by truth or lie to improve the social connections with Imperial society, though often restricted to its higher echelons,{{Fn|12c}} with 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 held in high esteem, often against that of any member of the Holy Orders of the Inquisition.{{Fn|3e}} As long as the Paternova 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. While many Inquisitors 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 zeal to eradicate the heretic, the mutant and the witch are known to indiscriminately exterminate even those 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}}
|source = – [[Kokabiel Grigoris]], rogue Navigator and Ipsissimus of the [[Cyclopean Congregation]]{{Fn|67}}
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Many [[Chaos]]-affiliated fleets and [[corsair]]s 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}} Chaos Space Marines might utilize an Imperial Navigator and their ever-inscreasingly increasingly mutated descendants. Navigators in the service of Chaos may 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}}
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