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.

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.

Maya had never seen the gate with her own eyes. Maps of the system usually depicted it as a simple ring, exaggerated in size to be visible against the gas giant around which it orbited. Even at its closest approach, from the surface, it was never more than a speck of brightness among a haze of false stars.