First Contact AU! The United Confederacy explores the Orion arm of the milky way galaxy, unaware of the rest of galactic civilization. When mankind meets its first aliens, how will things unfold? How will mankind react?

I didn't know how I ended up on the Citadel. What I did know, was that my chances of survival were higher if I could find refuge aboard the NORMANDY. So I took a gamble, and joined the hunt for Saren. Unfortunately, real life is not as easy as a game - but still, I wouldn't have missed it for anything. / Mass Effect 1, Self-Insertion, logic/realistic approach, close to canon.

A calming walk around town quickly turns into me being shot and ending up in a place I definitely didn't belong. Now, I have to help save the galaxy from an evil force that returns every 50,000 years and figure out why I was brought here in the first place. Will I die in the process? Most likely. But I sure as hell won't go quietly.

It is said that War never Changes; Men do, through the roads they walk, but War does not. The Humans fought The First War, and alongside the Quarians, the Alliance stands tall against the Galaxy in the face of continued adversity. Now Humanity's place is challenged, their power tested, and age-old beliefs are shattered when a beyond-ancient species is forced onto the playing field.

The events surrounding my exile have left me with a new goal in life: Find out who was behind the massacre at the hotel, and deal with them appropriately. In order to do so, I'm now on Omega to back up Aethyta's spy slash mercenaries. But Omega isn't Illium, and it's going to be rough few months. Hell, between the mercs, the gangs, and Aria herself.. we'll be lucky just to survive.