He was silent for a moment, his dark eyes thoughtful and a bit grim.<br/><br/>"My family, yes, and every other Navigator family as well. There's no choice involved, any more than a lasgun is given a choice to shoot or a truck the choice to drive. Navigators are tools, though ones with minds and thought, designed by the Holy Emperor himself with the special gene coded into us as our STC pattern."<br/><br/>"Living on Terra - it was like being in a gilded cage hanging above a pit of snakes, though the worst of the snakes lived in the cage with you. The Imperium gives the Navigator families an entire island to themselves, a private kingdom where we can plot and scheme against one another while protected against the multitudes that would see us killed for being mutants, uncaring of what it would do to the Imperium and humanity without Navigators to lead its fleets."<br/><br/>