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

===Role:===
Navigators are, first and foremost, scouts and explorers, and not just "gentleman-adventurers" drifting leisurely above the jungles in their dirigibles. Most Navigators are capable survivalists and able to help their collaborative survive in harsh and alien environments due to training, diligence, and a fierce will to survive. Those Navigators that are not wilderness travelers instead possess knowledge of the weird and horrific places that their wonders can take the collaborative. Their fellow geniuses also recognize a Navigators' usefulness when the ray guns come out, and a collaborative often expects its Navigator to take the lead in violent confrontations.

Earlier ages saw geniuses from the Circumference Center reduced to "second-class" status in 
collaboratives―hence the euphemistic and humble name "Navigator", which the foundation has kept as a badge of defiant pride. Navigators were seen as expendable scouts, transport specialists, and grunt soldiers, but not "real" geniuses. This attitude has died out almost entirely; younger geniuses often don't even know the stereotype in the first place and would react to it much like regular mortals react to "Irish Need Not Apply" signs.