Navis Nobilite Houses of the Prosperitas Sector
From Death unto Darkness
Where some Abhumans suffer extreme discrimination within the Imperium for their deviation from human norms, Navigators are far removed from such prejudices. A mutation of humanity the origins of the Navigators are unclear, they first emerged during the Dark Age of Technology, long before the rise of the Imperium, and have lived alongside them ever since, engineered or a 'blessing' upon their human peers, Navigators use a mutant Third Eye set in their forehead to perceive the Warp in ways that others cannot and navigate vessels through the warp.
- They Are Nobility. Such is the precious nature of Navigators and the long-standing independence of their Houses that unlike other mutants and abhumans who live their lives as chattel or 'lesser' beings in the eyes of the Imperial hierarchy, Navigators are treated as nobility. Though they do not intermarry with human Nobles (in order to preserve the stability of the Navigator gene) an individual Navigator holds a huge amount of political weight and is treated as precious by the Nobility, should they grow discontent, the Imperium would be adrift without their aid navigating their vessels through warp space.
- They are inhuman. Over the course of a natural lifespan of around four hundred years (without the aid of medical treatments like rejuvenat) Navigator bodies change and become increasingly inhuman in appearance and many are born with physical aberrations. This is both a combination of the warp exposure their duties entail and the instability of Navigator Physiology, which is more so than any other Abhuman, which is what makes it so ironic that they hold the highest status of all Abhumans.