Beyond the Awakening: The Fugue

external drawing of a ship

interior drawing of a ship

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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