Shepard had been brought back from death by Cerberus, but she suspects TIM has manipulated her into working for him and that he has his own hidden agenda. Who can she trust besides Garrus and Tali to help her discern the truth? (Being rewritten)

In 2157 a Citadel Council exploratory vessel is tasked with opening a dormant Relay into unknown regions of the galaxy. What they find is something they never expected. What happens when two civilizations centered around different technologies clash?

AU First Contact War. It was 48 years of endless slaughter and death. And from the pain and suffering of such unprecedented conflict, emerged an unprecedented plot, born of hate, to bring it all to an end...

"I came, I saw, I conquered." Julius Ceasar. In the 21st century humans make rapid advances into space, with individual nations striving to create their own interstellar empires. Space, for most people, was a means to escape, to leave a conflicted, divided and violent world. But wherever man went, devastation soon followed. (Title Changed)