Name: Jane Shepard

Birth Date: April 11, 2154

Time: 00:49

Age: 29

Family: Rosalyn Shepard (Mother) [ Deceased ]

Mark Shepard (Father) [ Deceased ]

John Shepard (Twin Brother) [ Active ]

Preservice History: Separated at birth from her birth father and twin brother, she grew up with her mother on the outer colony of Mindoir. There she grew up as a relatively happy child, helping her mother with the farm and going out to play with her small group of friends. The older she got, the more she began to wonder about her father, not knowing of her twin brother's existence. Her mother never spoke of him, so Shepard took her own initiative and searched for pictures, diary entries, anything of her birth father. Unfortunately, she did not come up with much, only a few pictures and a few letters. Learning of her father's involvement in the Alliance military and constant moving from station to station, she found it impractical to attempt to find him.

Then, a few days after she had turned sixteen, her town was raided by batarian slavers. She had luckily found a place to hide in which the slavers could not find her nor access her even if they did find her. This position also forced her to watch her mother become brutally abused and then slowly tortured and murdered, along with the rest of her friends and relatives. The stench of blood, ashes, and bile stung her nostrils and caused her to pass out.

When she awoke, a group of Alliance soldiers had attempted to get her out, eventually doing so and helping her to an escape ship. It was only she and a small handful of others who had made it out of the atrocity alive. She swore she would eventually find vengeance for what happened and never let it happen again.

At the age of eighteen, she decided to enlist in the Alliance military, wanting to help those who may end up in her position. (COLONIST)

Psychological Record: Only a year or so after graduating from the academy, Shepard was assigned to a team of marines to investigate some happenings on the colonial planet of Akuze. There hadn't been much contact from the colony and when they arrived, the situation got even stranger. There was no destruction, so obvious signs of a raid or an attack. It was as if the entire colony had just disappeared.

That night, the team took to camping out in a field, sharing the night and waiting to see if anything would happen. For the majority of the night, nothing did. Shepard couldn't tell if it was good or bad that nothing was happening, but like the others, she eventually fell asleep in the false security of their campsite. But only maybe an hour or so of restless sleeping did a rumbling start from under the ground.

Shepard woke and sat up, trying to see if they were being attacked, and if so, by what. But there was nothing in the distance. And worse, it felt as if it were coming from the underground. She got up, shotgun in hand and tried waking the others. They blew her off as overly nervous and paranoid and told her to go back to sleep. It wouldn't have been the first time, but she swore it was a real feeling.

And it was.

Without announcement, the vibrating stopped and shooting up from the ground, a giant creature, later to become known as a thresher maw, appeared, towering over the camp site. Some reacted immediately, allowing them to get a head start. Others were not so lucky and were killed on the spot. Shepard had booked it right when it appeared, attempting to outrun the monster. More and more of her men died as she attempted to help them fight it off, but it was hopeless. It ended up having her abandon the mission and run back to the pick up site. She waited at the site for a day, starving, dehydrated, paranoid and fidgety.

It's hard for her to talk about Akuze and likes to pretend it didn't happen. However, with the amount of military superiors she had to deal with then and now, it's hard not to be reminded of it. (SOLE SURVIVOR)

Class: Vanguard ( + Assault Rifles)