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

===Members:===
Many Navigators come from military or quasi-military backgrounds, their ranks swelled by demolitions experts, military scientists, pilots, and members of elite police and rescue forces. Even a Navigator who comes from a different background will find herself bumping against so many ex-military sorts that some of that mindset rubs off. Geniuses from non-scientific backgrounds are common, and include test pilots, truckers, and merchant marines who saw too much or got too obsessed and so catalyzed; these tough, aggressive individuals fit naturally into the Navigator hierarchy. But most Navigators still come from some kind of technical field, though rarely is it too refined or sedentary. The grease monkey Navigator is a stereotype for a reason, but others lived lives as EMTs, elite assassins, or even occultists before Catalyzing.

Due to their propensity for travel, and for coming from economically disadvantaged regions of the Middle East and Asia, Navigators are more likely than other foundations to be foreigners and refugees, wherever they are. Many have strange or unusual tales from their homelands, whether they originally manned an oil derrick off the Alaskan coast or fled to Japan on a makeshift raft.

Members of the Circumference Center are as interested in using their wonders as building them. This is not the machine functionality of the Union of Artificers, who are often very interested in how their devices run, but a "use-it-first" approach to wonders: potential Navigators are interested in what their wonders do and how well they do it, and they see direct tests as the best way to figure that out. This means that Navigators are often direct and somewhat aggressive, with hard-nosed and well-grounded personalities that seem at odds with their wonder-working. But the Navigators are by no means stupid―very few geniuses are dumb; most are just crazy, and the Fire Bait are just crazy in a different way from their fellows.