Written around the events of Mass Effect 1, Eden: The Beginning aims to show a more human side of Commander Shepard and will focus around the Shepard / Tali romance. If all goes as planned, this will be the first story in a series of three covering the Mass Effect trilogy.

Commander Johnathan "John" Shepard finds himself assigned to the Normandy while a Quarian girl prepares for her Pilgrimage and a disgrunted cop wrestles with red tape. Shepard / Tali for ME 2 content in later chapters. M for violence and sexual themes.