More affectionately known as the Fugl (Pronounced FUHG-l, as in fugly), The Fugue, is the product of Maya's efforts to get off Rumreign. The core of the ship, its Jump Drive, was retrieved in a long expedition out into the debris fields to catch the freshly fallen ship core as it fell from space in a giant ball of fire. After its successful extraction, Maya payed for the construction of a new ship around it by essentially figureheading for Rumreign's independence war.

Serviceable, but mildly ramshackle, it's fairly similar to other Jump capable ships. The ancient tech Jump Drive and comes with an equally enigmatic power source to provide the absurd amount of power necessary to rip holes in the fabric of space time. These holes remain open only briefly, requiring the ships to accelerate to huge speeds to fit the entirety of their bulk into the tear before it closes. The Fugue accomplishes this with several particle accelerators, which require their own mass cells as fuel. The energy to accelerate the particles to relativistic speeds is borrowed from the Jump Drive's power source.

The Fugue's large foreshield is mildly useless against most laser or missile based weapons, but does direct the stray bursts of energy released by spacetime tear away from vital ship components. Its cargo and crew quarters are kept under mild gravitational force in rotation around its central shaft.

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Maya was hardly tall by Rumreign's standards, but she was large, in a way that belied an origin on a planet at least a little more massive than Rumreign. Moreover, she carried herself with a certain guardedness which, when accompanied by a perpetual scowl, made it clear that any amount of whimsy was out of the question.

Which made for a lot of double takes when the rest of the crew would routinely find her sometimes crammed into tiny cubbies, sometimes upside down, sometimes both! throughout the blimp's cabin. Evidently, even if she remembered nothing of her previous life in interstellar space, the habits of confined spaces and inconsistent non-inertial reference frames had not left her.

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