Maze

"How many Saiyans do you think are left in the galaxy, my prince? How long before even those are gone?!"

- Maze, to Vegeta.

Maze was a Saiyan warrior and galactic traveler, the son of two survivors of the Genocide of the Saiyans. Raised by his father Cobb, a former member of the Saiyan Royal Guard, Maze took up his father's mantle by vowing to find the surviving Saiyan Prince said to be in the service of Lord Frieza and swear fealty to him. After at last finding him on Earth, however, Maze was tasked with scouring the galaxy for other survivors of Planet Vegeta's fall and returning them to the planet to rebuild their people in an unexpected form.

Biography
Maze's father, Cobb, was a member of the Saiyan Royal Guard—an organization of Saiyan warriors tasked exclusively with protecting the royal family and estates of King Vegeta. As the organization was thoroughly loyal to the king, its members were party to his conspiracy to rebel against Lord Frieza, and many joined King Vegeta's Elite when the conflict finally began. Cobb, however, had been among those assigned to a distant planet to maintain the security of a vacationing palace owned by King Vegeta, and when recalled to fight at their king's side, the detail was to their great shame too late. With the death of his liege and fall of his planet, Cobb joined the rest of his Royal Guard detail in attempting to avenge their people, but before so much as reaching their system were intercepted by Team Dodoria. Wounded early in the battle, Cobb abandoned his team and fled using one of the king's royal starships, going into hiding as a fugitive of Frieza's galactic empire.

Haunted by the shame of leaving his comrades to die, Cobb chased any rumor he could find of other surviving Saiyans rather than go to ground, and as such frequently came into conflict with soldiers of the Frieza Force. Despite setback after setback as his leads proved false or led only to graves, his efforts finally yielded success upon rescuing a lowborn Saiyan woman named Grainne from her capture by the Frieza Force. In time, their relationship became romantic, leading to Maze's conception ten years after the fall of their homeworld. The strain of their lives on the run, however, had taken their toll on her, and Grainne died in labor as the natives of a planet who'd agreed to shelter them became the latest victims of Frieza's conquest. Though stricken with grief, Cobb was forced to flee once again, clinging tightly to the newborn child who represented the last link to his wife and his people.

Trivia

 * Maze's name is a play on the word "maize", a primarily British word for the vegetable corn.
 * Maze was conceived mostly in reaction to the ever-increasing scale of Dragon Ball, reaching new levels of power as its way of denoting importance. The intention behind Maze is to make a character important through raising interesting questions for the series and its characters without power levels.