Navigator Powers

In the Imperium, there are thousands of Navigator Houses, each with a history that can be traced back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. However, the number of Navigators is a literal drop in the ocean compared to the vast masses of humanity. These houses vary in strength and composition, with many diverging from the original great families that first exhibited the Navigator gene. Over the millennia, some have dwindled, others turned outlaw, while many have prospered and created branches and offshoots.Prevalent groups include Nomadic Houses, Magisterial Houses, Shrouded Houses, and Renegade Houses.

As a Navigator you have to Choose your Nomadic house. This ist the Lineage where you come from. If you have the Navigator Talent choose one of the Houses with it's benefits.

Nomadic Houses

A Navigator character that belongs to a Nomadic House gains the following benefits:

• Lore of the Wanderer: The Navigator has an ingrained affinity with passage between distant and uncharted stars and gains the Talented (Navigation (Warp)) Talent.
• A Taste for the Warp: Living in constant contact with the veil between real space and the warp, the Navigator can read it like few others. The Navigator can spend a Fate Point to automatically succeed in using a Navigator power; if SL relevant to the effects of the power, he will succeed by 1d5 degrees of success with 5 counting as 0 degrees of success.
• Scorn of Dirt Dwellers: Those that have roamed the void for so long feel uncomfortable in the cultures of dirt dwellers and usually cannot wait to return to space. Whenever the Navigator is on a planetary body and must deal with locals he suffers a –10 to all Fellowship tests and skills based on Fellowship.
• Initial Mutation: Navigators from a Nomadic House begin play with a single Navigator Mutation rolled randomly from Table Navigator Mutations. They may develop additional mutations as normal when they acquire new Navigator Powers or increase their mastery of existing powers.

Magisterial Houses

A Navigator character that belongs to a Magisterial House gains the following benefits:

• Warp Focus: The warp eye is the core of a Navigator’s being and his oldest and most potent tool. Once per game session he may force a single opponent to re-roll a successful test when testing to resist the effects of The Lidless Stare Navigator Power.
• Pure Genes: The Navigators of a Magisterial House are less likely to mutate due to their pure genes. Whenever they must test for mutation the test is considered Routine (+20) rather than Ordinary (+10).
• Exalted Lineage: The blood of the most ancient and powerful navigator houses gifts their scions with a position of prestige amongst the nobility of the Imperium. The Navigator may call upon this lineage in social situations and gains a +1 SL bonus to any Interaction Skill Test when dealing with members of the Imperial nobility.
• Initial Mutation: Navigators from a Magisterial House begin play with a single Navigator Mutation chosen from the following options: Strangely Jointed Limbs, Elongated Form, Pale and Hairless Flesh, Eyes as Dark as the Void. They may develop additional mutations as normal when they acquire new Navigator Powers or increase their mastery of existing powers.

Shrouded Houses

A Navigator character that belongs to a Shrouded House gains the following benefits:

• Destitute: The navigator’s fortunes are so low that he has little or nothing and is initially a drain on the resources of his fellows. The presence of a navigator from a Shrouded Lineage reduces the group’s Influence -1 with Imperial Nobility and one chosen Fraction.
• A Gaze to Pierce the Soul: The Navigator has a keen understanding of a person’s relationship to the warp born of enforced self-reliance and bitter musings. The Navigator begins play with _Gaze into the Abyss_ as a bonus power. In addition, he may raise this ability above Master to Paragon (the xp cost is the same as to raise to Master) giving him a +30 bonus on all tests with this power.
• Mercantile Opportunists: Raised in a volatile atmosphere where the need for profit and advancement outweighed all other concerns, these Navigators have had to learn the hard way the skills of hard bargaining and contract hunting-needs most of their kind are normally sheltered from. The Navigator gains a +1 SL bonus to tests with the Recon (Charm, Haggle and Inquiry) Skills.
• Initial Mutation: Navigators from a Shrouded House begin play with a single Navigator Mutation rolled randomly from Table _Navigator Mutations_. They may develop additional mutations as normal when they acquire new Navigator Powers or increase their mastery of existing powers.

Renegade Houses

A Navigator character that belongs to a Renegade House gains the following benefits:

• The Fruits of Corrupted Blood: In tampering with the fundamental nature of their bloodlines the Renegade Houses have created both monsters and marvels. The Navigator begins play with an additional Navigator Power. Additionally, the Navigator may also choose three Navigator Powers; these may include powers he does not yet have, but plans to later acquire. He gains a +10 bonus to all tests with these powers (in addition to bonuses for being an Adept or Master). In addition, all tests by others to resist these powers suffer a -1 SL penalty.
• Unchecked Mutation: The Navigator is more prone to mutation and mental instability that any others of his kind, representing the tampering of his family line and a life overshadowed by doom. When taking tests for mutation for gaining a new power or increasing an existing one his tests are Challenging (+0) rather than Ordinary (+10) and he begins play with one Psycological Disorder.
• Renegades: The price of dabbling in the unknown is high, and it has cost the Renegade Houses in both security and status. Navigators from Renegade Houses begin play with 1d5 Corruption points and the watchful eye of the Inquisition ever waiting to uncover wrongdoing. Also, all tests that involve interacting with the official bodies of the Imperium are at a -1 SL penalty.
• Initial Mutation: Navigators from a Renegade House begin play with two Navigator Mutations rolled randomly from Table _Navigator Mutations_. They may develop additional mutations as normal when they acquire new Navigator Powers or increase their mastery of existing powers.

In addition to any modifiers detailed in the power’s description, a Navigator gains a bonus to the test based on his level of Mastery with the power (the level of Mastery equals how often the Navigator purchased the Navigator Power Talent ): • +0 Novice • +10 Adept • +20 Master

Example: Lyria the Navigator hast gained the Navigator Power (Gaze into the Abyss) two times giving her an Adept Rank with this Talent. When she rolls for the PerceptionTest she gets an +10 Bonus.

A Cloud in the Warp

By understanding and perceiving the currents of the warp, the Navigator can hide his presence from those that would use the Immaterium to detect him. Whilst it does not in any way mask his presence in the real universe, it can ably hide him from detection by Psykers and confuse creatures whose essence and existence are linked to the warp, such as Daemons and other warp entities. As the Navigator grows in power, he will become harder to detect, as well as being able to mask others if they stand nearby.

Novice: By making a Willpower test, the Navigator becomes shrouded in an immaterial cloak, forcing those that use any kind of psychic sight, detection or divination to make a Challenging (+0) Awereness Test to see him with such powers. This power also has the same effect on the perception of all Daemons and warp entities. This power will last as long as the Navigator maintains it, however whilst he does so, he cannot use any other powers (though he may take other actions normally).

Adept: As above, except the test to detect the Navigator becomes Difficult (–10).

Master: As above, except the power gains a radius equal to the Navigator’s Willpower Bonus in metres centred on his person. Any creature within the radius may be shrouded at the choice of the Navigator.

Foreshadowing

By using his warp eye to filter small secrets from the near future, the Navigator can choose to make slight adjustments to his actions to avoid harm and manipulate the course of events. Only if the Navigator tries to dig too deep into the near future for secrets does this power become unpredictable and he may become victim of the warp’s lies.

Novice: With a successful Perception Test, the Navigator draws three secrets from the future. He may then “spend” a secret on his following turn to gain a +10% bonus on any Test. Using one secret in this way carries no danger. However, he may choose to spend either of his other two secrets to add an additional +10 bonus to the roll for each secret spent (for a total bonus of +20 for 2 secrets used, and +30 for three secrets used). For each additional secret used beyond the first, the Navigator must roll a d10; if this roll comes up 7, 8, 9, or 10, then the secret causes the Navigator to suffer a –10% penalty instead of granting a bonus. Secrets not used in the following round are lost as time marches on. Using this power more than once in the same hour is dangerous, as no one should know too much about his own future. For every use after the first in a single hour, the Navigator has to succeed a Difficult (-10) Willpower Test or gain a temporal Psychology. On a failure of -6 SL or lower it will be a permanent Psychology.

Adept: As above, except secrets will only deduct rather than add on a roll of 9 or 10.

Master: As above, except secrets can be used up to five rounds after the power is used.

Gaze into the Abyss

This power allows a Navigator to see a creature’s or object’s reflection in the warp and learn things hidden from the real universe. This power is most useful in unmasking both psykers and daemons, but has other applications, such as reading residual psychic taint on objects and tracking powerful psychic entities.

Novice: With a successful Perception Test, the Navigator can determine if a creature or object holds the taint of the warp. This will tell the Navigator if the person or object has the Psyker Talent or is tainted (roughly speaking if they have more than 20 Corruption Points, warp mutations, are possessed, etc.). Psykers who have made dark pacts with the warp and daemons are more resistant to this power, however. These creatures may make a Willpower Test opposed by the Navigator’s Awareness, which if successful will hide their true natures. This power can also be used to track powerful psychic or warp creatures.

Adept: As above, with the additional effect that the Navigator can detect major disturbances in the warp, such as warp portals and ships entering and exiting the Immaterium within a radius of 100 kilometres times his Perception Bonus.

Master: As above but the Navigator can also use the power to detect the use of psychic powers within a radius of 10 metres per point of his Perception Bonus.

Held in my Gaze

The unflin hing eye of a Navigator locks a creature in place with a gaze that pierces flesh and bone to see the immaterial essence of all things. Most commonly employed against psykers, this ability can be used to render them effectively powerless and prevent them from calling upon their abilities. It is also undeniably effective against creatures with a strong connection to the warp, such as daemons, for which it can have spectacular and devastating consequences.

Novice: The Navigator chooses a target which he has line of sight to and is no further away than Short Range. He then makes an Opposed Willpower test with the target. If he is successful, then the target is locked and will remain so as long as the Navigator does not use any other powers. A locked target must beat the Navigator in an Opposed Willpower test each time it wishes to use a psychic power or invoke the Daemonic Presence Trait. If the target moves out of range or line of sight, the power ends. Daemons affected by this power suffer 1 point of additional Damage for Warp Instability.

Adept: As above, however the range increases to Short Range and daemons affected by this power suffer 2d10 points of damage instead of 1 point when suffering Warp Instability.

Master: As above, with the addition that the Navigator no longer needs to have line of sight to the target and daemons suffering any damage from Warp Instability are immediately destroyed and cast back into the warp.

The Course Untravelled

Time is not an arrow that flies straight and true, but rather ,a tangled web of moments and possibilities. The Course Un-travelled power allows a Navigator to negotiate this web, stepping fractionally from one moment to another, and in the process, altering his position in the physical world. The use of such power is extremely dangerous, however, as the Navigator is not actually physically travelling in place as such, but rather choosing an alternate future in which wish to inhabit. He risks both injury and madness in trying to step outside the flow of time in this way.

Novice: If the Navigator succeeds at a Difficult (–10) Willpower Test, he may move to any point within Medium Range, so long as he could have walked, climbed, or swam there normally without impediment. If he fails this test, he is Stunned for 1 round and fails to change position. If he fails this test by -3 SL or more, he is Stunned for 1d10 rounds and gains an Insanity Point. Whether or not this power is successful, the Navigator suffers a Fatigue Condition at the end of the Round thanks to the strain on his body.

Adept: As above, except the test is only Challenging (+0) and the range is increased to Long Range.

Master: As above, except he may now perform this power as a Free Action or as a Reaction.

The Lidless Stare

If a Navigator opens his warp eye fully, anyone gazing into its depths will witness the power and mind breaking unreality of the warp. In an instant, they witness the chaos boiling beneath the skin of existence and for many, it is the last thing they ever see.

Novice: As a Full Action, the Navigator makes an Opposed Willpower Test with anyone looking into his Warp Eye. Make a single test for the Navigator and compare it to the results of each of his opponents. If the Navigator achieves more SL, the opponent suffers SL+ the Navigator’s Willpower bonus in Energy damage. This damage is not reduced by armour. Anyone taking damage from this power is also Stunned for 1 round as they are ripped with agony. Using this power is taxing and inflicts a level of Fatigue on the Navigator. If the Navigator fails this Test by one SL or more, he suffers two Fatigue Conditions.

Adept: As above, however, the damage is increased to SL + (2 times the Navigator’s WP bonus) and the time the victims are Stunned increases to 1d5 rounds. Victims also suffer 1d5 Insanity Points.

Master: As above, with the additional effect that any creature possessing an Intelligence of 20+ suffering damage from this power must make an immediate Difficult (–10) Toughness Test or be slain. If they pass, they suffer 1d10 Insanity points rather than 1d5.

Avoiding a Navigator’s Gaze The Lidless Stare will affect anyone, friend or foe, that looks into the Navigator’s third eye when this power is activated. This has an effective range of Short (reduced to Immidiate in fog or mist) and has no effect on unliving targets, Untouchables, and daemons or other entities from the Warp. Those forewarned can look away, though even then being within line of sight of a Navigator is dangerous. The power of his eye is persuasive, and looking away only grants them Advantage on their rolls to resist its power. Those who are unaware of the Navigator’s presence gain this bonus as well.

Tides of Time and Space

By examining the flow of the warp around him, the Navigator can anticipate near future actions and thus move outside the normal flow of events by choosing strands of reality and slipping between them. Whilst this power can be of great benefit to the Navigator, it is also very dangerous, and should he lose control, the results can be disastrous.

Novice: Each round the Navigator wishes to use this power he must make a Perception Test as a Free Action to read the strands of time. On a success, he doubles his Agility Bonus for the purposes of determining initiative and may take an additional Move Action that turn. On a failure, he halves his Agility Bonus for initiative and may only take a Move Action that turn as he loses his grip on reality, becoming confounded and disorientated. Should he fail by -3 or worse, he winks out of existence for 1d5 rounds, reappearing where he was at the end of this duration. Should something else occupy that space when the Navigator returns, he shifts his position as much as necessary to a point of the player’s choice. Whether or not this power is successful, however, the Navigator suffers a Fatigue Condition at the end of the Round each time it is used. This power does not give the Navigator an additional Reaction.

Adept: As above, except he triples his Agility Bonus for the purposes of determining Initiative.

Master: As above, however, he quadruples his Agility Bonus for Initiative. In addition, he may a extra Action instead of the additional Move Action in addition to his other Action this round.

Tracks in the Stars

When a ship travels though either real space or the warp it leaves a faint trail, the lingering shadow of its warp drive. Using his third eye, the Navigator can follow this trail across the stars.

Novice: Using Perception, the Navigator can track the warp trail of a ship through real space in the same way as if he was using the Tracking Skill. To track a warp trail, it can be no older than the Navigator’s Perception Bonus in weeks, although the size and power of the vessel involved may mitigate this.

Adept: As above, however, the warp trail may be up to a number of months old equal to the Navigator’s Perception Bonus. He may also track ships in the warp in the same manner.

Master: As above, except he can follow a warp trail equal to the Navigator’s Perception bonus in years old, although this information may be erratic and fragmentary.

Void Watcher

Using this power and gazing into the void whilst aboard ship, the Navigator can learn things about space in the immediate vicinity of his vessel. This can reveal hidden dangers such as mines, void creatures, and concealed ships, as well as more mundane perils like asteroids and debris. With skill and practice, a Navigator’s void sense can become amazingly precise and reach out across millions of kilometres of space.

Novice: The Navigator can make a Perception test (modified by range and size of potential objects as the GM thinks appropriate) to detect objects in space up to a distance equal to the Navigator’s Perception Bonus in Void Units. If the power is not being used during space combat, the distance equals 1,000 kilometres times the Navigator’s Perception Bonus. Information gained about such objects is only what the Navigator could discover through normal observation.

Adept: As above, however, range is increased to a distance equal to double the Navigator’s Perception Bonus in Void Units, or 10,000 km times the Navigator’s Perception Bonus if the power is not being used during space combat. He may make a Difficult (–10) Willpower Test to gain some information about the nature of the object (i.e., what minerals are in an asteroid, what kind of crew a starship has).

Master: As above, except range becomes equal to fi e times the Navigator’s Perception Bonus in Void Units (see page 212 in Chapter VIII: Starships), or 100,000 km times the Navigator’s Perception Bonus if the power is not being used during space combat. The test to gain additional information becomes Ordinary (+10).

Testing for Resisting Mutation

A Navigator’s resistance or susceptibility to mutation is almost purely down to the psychical purity of his gene-stock. When a Navigator learns a new power or increases mastery of a power, he must make an Ordinary (+10) Toughness Test. If he fails this test, then a flaw in his genes has revealed itself, and he must generate a mutation on the Navigator Mutation Table.

Navigator Mutations Table