When Maya is moment of death but she did not dead but teleport to the future by Ava and VHs. The idea is a artifact or location is been auction off which the crew have to find location of the auction only to find someone beat them to the punch, now they figure out who took and beat them to the vault or take back the artifact. We can have Casino, and arena pits in the area as well.
Link to a petition to save maya from been written off:
https://www.change.org/p/gearbox-software-save-maya-borderlands-3