Ranisch Navigation

A **Ranisch Navigator** ( RC: Кибернит ) is a gifted mentat guy who grows up in pressure chambers filled with the Ranisch substance in order to mutate into his post-human form. They are the operators of navigation chambers, most importantly the prime chamber: a manned control station as close to the engine core as technically feasible.

## Space Compass

North: Magnetic Pole of Ancient Earth

South: Other Magnetic Pole

East: Sunwards, Galactic Core

West: Beltwards, Outer Reach

The North Vector is the magnetic pole of AE while the East Vector is its right angle towards the nearest star, or the galactic core if they are all too far away. The Clock Vector is your LEFT hand stretched out (Yeah, this is left-wing space opera OMG!!!) if you face your sun & then look up North.

One o'clock means 30 degrees. If you start heading clockwise, you will sooner or later (after a few million years) end up back on your starting point because of gravity & shit.

The momentum of your course correction can be given in percents of 1% of your total mass (or grams if you wanna stay absolute) times the speed of light squared as in E = mc2.

## Anti-gravity deck

This lets the navigators utilize the relativistic time dilation to have a lot more time to navigate his vessel by interacting with thousands of individuals simultaneously on interstellar fleet radio. On the other hand, they are usually the first casualties of engine malfunctions. For some reason, male genetics are somehow better suited for this job.

### Command bridge

The command bridge is also located in anti-gravity field, but way behind the primary & secondary navigation chambers where the gravity is only 5 to 10 times as strong as on Earth. The officers are lying on beds with control devices around them, wearing advanced pressure suits to protect their blood circulation.

### Service Center

The shared service center is somewhere under the bridge, with simple Earth-like (just negative) gravity letting junior officers do their office jobs a bit faster. There is also a hospital on this level where wounded crew members can be lowered to heal faster. Pregnant girls are also sometimes lowered down to replenish the crew.

## Exotic matter

The spearwives live & work with their servants under the "normal" gravity provided by the constant 1G acceleration of the spacecraft: they do not interact much with exotic matter. The navigators, on the other hand, are right behind the gravitational center of the spacecraft!!

That's where all incoming dark or regular matter is converted to white matter. In other words: negative mass pushed out of the vessel by ring accelerators filled with some other exotic shit. There are all these different kinds of particles in the universe, you know, it's more like Botanics instead of Physics!

## DML on the deck

I was able to use my sexual capital with a Laconic admiral named Larina Shon to get a flight control job on the deck as we were about to invade Earth 2. It was a really crazy night that made me worried shitless in the following days, but once I got there at last... Hell yeah, man, I can't even begin to describe all the crazy stuff!! Ranisch navigation is like really wild, you know, it really is the big thing!

Larina was always stopping by to say hello & she often called me down to the service center for a bit of casual sex. That's where I did not need a wheelchair to move around, cuz upstairs I sure as hell did! Fortunately I did not have to move much as my workstation was basically my toilet as well, but it was good for my muscles anyway.

Still, I often looked like shit. For example, 3 minutes of battle control for my TroBom folks (EN: Orbital Bombardment) was more like 3 days under 3 G's for me, you know, time dilation! Often I had my toddler son Damir in my lap as well: they wanted him to become a navigator, you see? He was already a young man training in his chamber when the Thanna ships arrived.

## Life of a navigator

Unlike the guild navigators of the Dune saga (or those raised in Thanna customs) these Pseudo-Ranisch guys are actually the most popular celebrities within mainstream Ranisch society! Regularly invited to the wildest parties of the known universe, they interact with their fans for example through human avatars.

Or directly from fancy cyberpunk pressure suits, or opulently decorated pressurized glass tanks filled with high-pressure Substance gas. They are able to produce media content billions of times faster than anyone else!!

They are the owners of their chambers & everything directly attached! Although rarely allowed to say no to a client, they can always ask for any amounts of hazard bonuses from someone they don't like. They put this money toghether with their regular fees into the Raanish Development Bank where they can freely invest after paying all due taxes.

### Sex life

Okay, now let's talk about their private lives: like we said, they can only be male. They evolve in very harmonic ergonomic ways that keep them relatively fuckable! In the first few million years of his young adult life, the navigator is still relatively muscular & sexy, not yet living under extremely high pressure. He can have real actual naked sex with several Ranisch races, most notably the Imperatrix who can easily stand very high pressures throughout a longer act as well.

The act happens somewhere halfway between the two different pressure domains where the physical pain is mostly converted by the Ranisch substance to something very profound! Navigators become exceptionally tender lovers as their bodies get softer, filled with more & more high pressure superneurons.

A navigator can also fuck thousands of women simultaneously with his handsome cyborg avatars that can even inseminate them. He really is the king of sex!!!