Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Three:Systems and Foundations (section)

===Focus:===
The Navigators focus on mad physics. They were the scholars of heat and of lightning; today they are masters of radiation and of gravitation. Navigators are also, as their name implies, travelers, able to bend their knowledge to the creation of fantastic vehicles and dimensional gates. While the classic image of a Navigator puts one behind the seat of a Wondrous hot rod or stratospheric flying machine, powerful Navigators also explore the depths of space and time. Navigators are all over the board with how rough or refined their techniques are: some are fireburned blacksmiths or overall-wearing grease monkeys, while others are refined scholars of hidden energies and forces not yet understood, let alone explored, by mortal science.

Of all the foundations, Navigators are the most focused on their field of study. Mad physics serves as the springboard for nearly all Navigators. Exceptions include medical Navigators, who build bizarre vehicles of bone and sinew, dimension-hopping occultists who explore the half-real worlds of specters and phantoms, and cybernauts who plunge, body and mind, into the uncharted depths of the Internet. These alternate groups often appear in phases or fads: the heyday of Web-Navigation is past, for example, and no one's sure what the new direction will be.

Though many people figure Navigators are too reckless to keep careful notes, many Daredevils, especially as they get older, keep meticulous records, and many are gifted physicists and researchers who, if not for their manic wanderlust or other flaws of character, could be top-flight researchers, not just test pilots and explorers. Of course, just as many Navigators live up to their stereotype, taking just enough notes and doing just enough work to build that flying machine or open that gate, then leaping through.