Some explanation is needed for this one. I love Maze in kind of the same way I love Cody, he's Mr. Competent even if he doesn't like it because somebody's got to keep everything together and pointed in the right direction damnit. That and he calls Skirata on his bull in Imperial Commando 501st which, however you feel about Skirata and his happy Mando family, you have to admit the man had coming. So Maze=Awesome.
Also, Traviss herself stated that her ultimate plan was to have Maze and Zey fly off and be "the Starsky and Hutch of GFFA." As a child who had a stuffed toy named Huggy Bear I find that to be too great to pass up. Maze is totally Starsky btw.
Disclaimer: See Ch. 1
Hope: the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best
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A person or thing in which expectations are centered
Everything's gone to osik and Maze can't stop smiling. He's defied the new Emperor, hauled a half-dead Jedi general through light-years of enemy space to a hostile camp where he'd managed to bully Kal and his idiot brood into helping them and now they're both fed and healed and okay and free.
Maze has done the impossible and now there's nothing he can't pull off. It's just him and Zey, out to sort out the galaxy all on their own. Together, as equals; as friends maybe. There's nothing else left for them now and Maze couldn't be happier about it.