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

===History:===
The Navigators joined the Peerage only recently, and many older peers do not yet consider them "proper" members. The term "Navigator" referred to those Lemurian geniuses who were considered Inspired enough that they were not beholden, but not worthy of attaining the higher secrets of mad science. They were "low-caste" geniuses, tasked with the transportation and maintenance of their self-styled betters. This low position was based on old Lemuria's strange race hierarchies, and the ethnic makeup of the Navigators is still slightly skewed toward Lemuria's "middle races," which includes most people of Asian and Middle Eastern descent.

The Navigators abandoned Lemuria between the World Wars, not just because Lemuria was full of evil racists who oppressed them, but because it was full of incompetent, bumbling idiots who couldn't even conduct Armageddon properly. They remained independent, a unified rogue program, until the 1960s, when they became part of the Peerage. The Navigators quickly gained a reputation not just for efficient movement of troops (and money―they are a rather wealthy organization, as a whole), but for a military veneer that at times bordered on the fascistic. This element has declined in recent years, but many Navigators possess a distinctly militaristic style. In recent years, after the collapse of the old Peer hierarchies, the Navigators have moved further from their martial traditions to embrace all kinds of wanderers, explorers, and adventurers, but in some places the old ways die hard.