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Greep was once a ship's engineer, proficient in drift engine maitenance and modification. During the Drift Crisis, however, her ship crashed into a far off moon, killing the vast majority of her crew and leaving all survivors critically wounded. Within a week of the crash, she was the only one left. She was stranded, completely alone, on an uninhabited moon. It wasn't until 6 years after the Drift Crisis had been resolved that she was rescued.
Her experience left her completely changed her as a person, and with a newfound motivation towards further development of Drift technology. Her interest in Drift technology and the trauma of the Drift Crisis caused her to immerse herself into her work. Greep ended up making a strong breakthrough in Drift research, developing a theory on the varying functionality of different fuel and power types for Drift Engines. Her success allowed her the opportunity to manage a research lab, and it was at this point in her life that she encountered information on behemos.
Her interest in behemos was much more difficult to get funded and supported. With little more to prove their existence aside from folklore and urban legends, there wasn't much to research on the species, let alone any easy way to track one down. Greep continued to center her research around Drift Engine fuel, and once she reached a standstill there, she worked on Drift Engine integrations for emergency FTL travel mechanisms. But, all the while, she used the connections she made through her main research to privately continue behemos-related work. It wasn't until years down the line that she was able to really act on her interest in behemos.
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A connection of hers who'd worked on Greep's research enough to gain familiarity with descriptions of Behemos contacted Greep when they located an individual who'd been taken into custody on a backwater moon colony. Greep arrived, and upon meeting the individual, was assured of their nature as a Behemos. After some negotiation, Greep was able to make a case for the behemos' freedom, and talked them into accompanying her back to the lab. The behemos was very slow to trust and emotionally unstable to say the least, but Greep was at least able to get them to introduce themself as Huv.
And so, Greep's research continued, now with a real Behemos in tow. Huv was far from well-adjusted; the trauma of being a behemos was already intense, but Huv was a shakalta who'd lost the other half of her soul when she died. As a result, he was intensely unstable and latched onto Greep in the midst of his struggles. Greep, who was also very unstable and mentally ill- never having properly resolved the reprecussions of her trauma and post trauamatic stress resulting from the Drift Crisis- accepted this readily. Greep initially hoped to only use Huv's instability to manipulate them, but she became unhealthily attached as well, until this manifested into an even more unhealthy relationship (its toxic yuri they're toxic old woman yuri).
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