The Navis Nobilitai, more commonly known as Navigators are vital to the existance of the Imperium. It is their powers and 'third eye' which enables ships to make warp jumps in relative safety. Without the navigators, ships would only be able to make short, blind, dangerous jumps, and without safe warp travel the imperium would fracture and be doomed. Box set contains one Navis Nobilitai model.
Navigator Teodor Minodoya
Equipment: Knife, Staff, Conversion Field, Pentagrammic Wards, Hexagrammic Wards (though more resistant than most to daemonic and psychic attack, Navigators see no sense in taking chances…) and a Reflex inhaler (3 doses).
Special Abilities: Leader, "I have stared into the Abyss", The Lidless Stare, Warp Gaze, Temporal Distortion.
Mutation - Scales: Beneath Teodor's robes, his skin has hardened in patches to resemble scales. His Base Injury value is increased by 1 (this makes his initial Base Injury value 7).
Navigator Teodor Minodoya
Equipment: Knife, Staff, Conversion Field, Pentagrammic Wards, Hexagrammic Wards (though more resistant than most to daemonic and psychic attack, Navigators see no sense in taking chances…) and a Reflex inhaler (3 doses).
Special Abilities: Leader, "I have stared into the Abyss", The Lidless Stare, Warp Gaze, Temporal Distortion.
Mutation - Scales: Beneath Teodor's robes, his skin has hardened in patches to resemble scales. His Base Injury value is increased by 1 (this makes his initial Base Injury value 7).
WS BS S T I Wp Sg Nv Ld
Teodor Minodoya 45 38 53 64 76 78 81 72 69
Navigator Teodor Minodoya, Third Heir Apparent of House Minodoya
Serving on the Naval vessel, Scalermo's Hammer, Teodor Minodoya saw his first taste of the horrors of war when the vessel he was guiding towards Cadia was attacked in the Warp by Chaos raiders from the Moutaran Nebula on the fringes of the Eye of Terror. Faced with overwhelming odds, the ship's crew prepared to fight and die as raiders and mutants swarmed aboard, with thousands upon thousands more ready to exploit the breaches. As the hordes of traitors neared the bridge, the bodyguard assigned to Teodor by his family, Aberic Brawden - a bosun press-ganged from the feral world of Heoren - drew his antique naval pistol and planted himself before the entrance to the crystal dome of the Navigator. Furious battle raged throughout the corridors of the ship as the captain of the Hammer desperately attempted to outmanoeuvre the attacking vessel, with navigational data being fed to him by Teodor.
In a last ditch attempt to throw their pursuit, Teodor calculated a hugely risky Warp jump that, if successful, would assure their escape, but would, more than likely trap them in the depths of the Warp forever. As the ship prepared to make its jump, the raiders broke onto the bridge and attacked the armsmen defending the captain and his bridge staff. Bloody combat erupted as the Naval officers fought to defend their ship, and in the midst of this battle, Aberic Brawden shot, stabbed and killed anyone who came near his charge, determined to protect him whatever the cost. He was grievously wounded, but held the raiders at bay long enough for the captain to hurl the ship headlong through the Warp.
Raging currents from the Eye threatened to throw the Hammer thousands of light years off course, but as Teoder tried in vain to hold true to his original course, great power suddenly flooded him and his ability to navigate the treacherous straits of the Immaterium swelled to unprecedented levels. Every roaring current was as a calm ocean to Teoder and he expertly guided the Hammer home to Cadia as the armsmen fought back and defeated the boarders, who, without their reinforcements, were unable to overcome the defenders. Upon docking at Kasr Sonnen in the Cadian system, the reasons behind the unexplained enhancement in Teodor's powers became clear to him. While the ship had benn becalmed in the Warp, the Paternova of the Navigator houses had died, in the ensuing power struggle between the Heirs Apparent, the Minodoya Family had emerged triumphant, resulting in its scions having their powers augmented. Part of Teodor rejoiced, for his family was now in a pre-eminent position in the Imperium, with control of all the great Navigator Houses, but he also felt a keen sense of loss, knowing that any chance he might have had of becoming the Paternova himself was now in ashes.
Denied his chance at ruling, Teodor was instead granted a Free Charter to lease his powers to whomsoever he pleased, and given his family's blessing to operate outwith the oaths, charters and fealties that they operated under. Truly he was a free agent, with the ability to make his fortune amongst the galaxy. It was, therefore, unfortunate that Teodor chose to ply his trade along the routes and amongst the cartels in which his family and their affiliates traded, offering his services at vastly reduced, yet still highly lucrative prices. Together, he and Aberic (whose wounds suffered during the boarding of Scalermo's Hammer were now healed - though, having been operated upon by a drunken ship's surgeon, were of a rather more crude nature than might normally have been expected for the retainer of one of the Great Families) took passage on a number of vessels throughout the Segmentum, moving from world to world and securing their transit across the galaxy, all the while amassing a sizable fortune. A thorn in the side of his family, Teodor continues to infuriate them, though - as Paternoval Envoys to the High Lords of Terra - it would be unseemly of them to have him removed (at least openly…) since the loss of face would be considerable.
