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

===Organization:===
Today's navigators are a disorganized and solitary lot, and they like it that way. As the Navigators emerged from the shadows of Lemuria, they found dignity and honor in a military structure, complete with an archaic but rewarding rank system that resembled a cross between feudal Europe and the modern armed forces. Newly catalyzed Navigators, without anyone under their command, were just called Navigators. Command of an entire collaborative earned the rank of Captain, while administrating an entire zotheca (Navigators kept the Lemurian term) of at least ten geniuses earned the rank of Chevalier. Control of an entire metropolitan region fell on the shoulders of a Dux Bellorum, supported by a handful of Lieutenants. Above the Dukes were the Marshalls, nine of them, who elected from among their own number an Imperator every three years.

This hierarchy survived the reorganization the Peerage underwent in the nineties, but its influence did not. The quasi-military structure, coupled with the natural aggressiveness of many Navigators, resulted in a foundation reviled as a pack of thugs and would-be feudalists out for money and obeisance from their fellow geniuses. The new Navigator hierarchy is considerably looser and employs the honorific "Palatine," which previously signified a Navigator too mobile to make full use of his rank, as a default. Only in a handful of places where Navigators exert great influence, such as Los Angeles, are the old systems still enforced. Now, most Navigators are only dimly aware of their rank, if any, and social climbing is seen as somewhat vulgar and pointless by younger Daredevils.