Hey all,

I just got Into the Storm and I was reading about the number of Astropaths on a ship (Astropathic Choir) which got me wondering; how many Navigators are on the ship/s your PC's control? Do you not care and say that they have enough to 'get there' or did you place a specific number on board?

I'm a GM who likes all his ducks in a row and I doubt the PC's will interact with any Navigators besides the Head Navigator NPC I designed, but I still want to know what your thoughts are. If the PC Rogue Trader asks how many they have I don't want to say, "Well there are a bunch, so you shouldn't have to worry," then again the head Navigator may not want her Lord Captain to know how many Nav's she has in her command.

-Mike C

As I understand from the fluff I've read the Navigator is a navigator from a specific house/clan with the gift to sift through the warp so almost always a ship has a single Navigator and the Astropathic Choir is usually at a mimimum of 3 on any ship and depending on the ships size and importance can have up to oh...10-15 psykers in the astropathic choir aboard it.

In my campaign I decided the Navigator (GF) has two assistents to be able to work in shifts and not to become a hopeless drug addict...

I've ruled my PC's ship has 3 navigators (none pc's), so they can work in 8 hour shifts.

They also have 5 astropaths, with one 'main' one, and 4 helpers.

I try to keep things logical by looking at modern navy crews, hey tend to have triple of everything, for the 3x8hour watches.

The Outside Chance had a complement of seven Navigators aboard. These consisted of the Warp Guide (Senior Navigator, a PC), the Carto-Artifex (keeper of charts), three well-trained journeymen Navigators, and two young apprentice Navigators. Recently, the senior-most of the journeymen was lost to an accident involving a Halo Device and both of the apprentices are still in rough shape recovering from injuries received during the same event.

Thanks everyone. Happydaze, I definitely like what you've done with your Nav's on The Outside Chance. I'd like to copy it, but I'll leave the titles up the PC's.

Eskilius Quinn said:

Don't worry at all about "copying" since the titles came from the shipboard positions listed in Into the Storm. OK, I did elect to use "journeyman" and "apprentice" to describe the junior Navs, but that's hardly unique.