The Mud Maggot is built on a number of worlds, but it is found in many places where rugged functionality at remarkably low cost is considered more important than speed, grace, or standard safety features. Doubtless there are new Mud Maggots out there, some may even have the original paint (or paint of any sort) but few admit to having seen one lest they be suspected of hallucinating, perhaps under the influence of self-prescribed narcotics. On some worlds it is traditional for a young woman to totally rebuild a Mud Maggot, prior to presenting it to the man she has decided to marry. Tradition suggests the marriage lasts as long as the Mud Maggot, but given the machine can go a century between major rebuilds, I beg leave to doubt this claim.