Dr.Strife arrived in Step City at age 23 finishing her degree in medicine and chemistry. She was entered into school early as a child out of the island and was granted school money by a local science laboritory who also offered her a work-study program which was helping with the STEP project. A very intelligent woman indeed who has a knack for science. Her role at the beginning was to find any chemical factors in the project and to seek any other alternatives of dance amplification. Young and eagar to work, Maria spent most of her time in the labs not really exploring the city at all. Sometimes she was booted from the labs to go rest at home,but then the streets weren't so friendly to scientists either. A few years into the project, she started to take her free time into self defense at va