Navigator's Quarter

The Navigator's Quarter is a district on Holy Terra entirely given over to some of the stateliest palaces the hand of Mankind has ever raised. Almost every Navigator House maintains an estate in the Navigator's Quarter. By ancient tradition, even those piles belonging to disgraced or extinct Houses are left as they were when their last masters departed. Thus, amidst the opulence there can be seen tragic reminders of Houses cast down or lost to the passage of time and war, the skeletal ruins of their once majestic palaces crumbling away beside the still-standing splendour of those rivals remaining in existence. In many cases, however, Holy Terra is not the centre of a Navigator House's power and their mansions are maintained there only as a matter of form. The interests of most Houses are spread far and wide across the Imperium, as befits an organisation whose fortunes depend upon their expertise traversing the countless Warp routes of the galaxy. It is not uncommon for various Navigator Houses to concentrate their resources more in one region than any others, and so most sectors are host to the central holdings of at least one, and possibly several dozen, Navigator Houses.

The Paternova, the leader and most powerful, both in terms of psychic and political power, of all the Navigators of the Navis Nobilite. They permanently reside in the Palace of the Navigators which dominates the centre of the Navigator's Quarter. From the moment he or she is installed, the Paternova never leaves this palace. The staff, soldiery and other retainers of the Palace of the Navigators are all drawn from the Paternova's own House, and are all replaced with each new Paternova who assumes the office. From his throne on ancient Terra, he guides the destiny of the Houses, ensuring their place of power within the galaxy.The chief amongst a Paternova's servants is the Paternoval Envoy, who often serves as one of the High Lords of Terra, representing the interests of the Navis Nobilite on the Senatorum Imperialis.