The mating urge is powerful among species less-evolved than the salarians and this can lead sapients into... problematic situations. Luckily, Fornax Magazine health & sexuality contributing editor Dr. Mordin Solus is here to help. In every issue, the eminent physician and biologist answers your questions about intimate relations, including interspecies ones.

(Fem)Shepard and Tali finally get some alone time. It devolves into talking about boobs.

'Good instincs' meant hunches, guesses, not throwing his career away to follow a Specter chasing ghosts through the stars. But Garrus Vakarian is nothing if not stubborn, and taking down Saren demands he become more than C-Sec. And Commander Shepherd believes he can be even more than that. Slowburn Shakarian, traces of Shenko, slight AU main game.

The Shadow Broker: An entity that has seemingly lived forever, indomitable and insatiable in its thirst for information, instilling hope and fear into its patron's lives … and haunting those who pray their secrets are never found. The institution was nearly destroyed by the Reaper War—many thought it was. This is the story of its rebirth and resurrection (co-author: Desert Sunrise)

Kaidan and Shepard lie in bed together, discussing their relationship and their sexualities. Mshenko. Rated M for some explicit sex flashbacks

AU, ME1. Main changes are to humanities biology. Same universe as 'Bloody Path to the Stars'. After coming onto the galactic scene in a short but bloody war, Humanity has a meteoric rise. Now another hurdle is being jumped. A human is being seriously considered as a possible spectre, but this human will be more important than anyone realizes.

A collection of codex entries for the AU world of 'Bloody Path to the Stars'.

The galaxy struggles to heal from from the unimaginable sacrifices that stopped the Reapers. Its many peoples look to the future with hope, yet some seek to capitalize on chaos. As new choices and battles loom on the horizon, two bound souls and the family that fought with them struggle to move forward and keep the galaxy they saved from sliding back into conflicts of the past.

[AU] [Spin-off from the 'Targeted Interference' series with OCs. Very NSFW. M/M. Bloodlust Series.] After being given the chance to feed his need for revenge against the men who raped, tortured, and murdered his sister—as well as raped and tortured him—Charles Fairclough finds returning to life on the Citadel difficult ... and he's found he really has a taste for blood.

A journal and transcript of armor logs compiled by Garrus Vakarian and Liara T'Soni to tell the story of the one who saved the galaxy from the Reapers.

While Shepard recovers in a hospital on Earth, his crew has to fight their own battles with the still present bigotry, hostility, and emotional strife surrounding the galaxy, even after the fall of the Reapers. Once it get's going, the story will focus mainly on Shep & Tali's relationship, with a fair emphasis on Garrus as well as he struggles with his own feelings towards Tali.

After landing the opportunity of a lifetime to train under a notorious general, Castis Vakarian dreams of political aspirations - but a chance encounter with a bounty hunter makes him question what he really wants.

It's been five years since the end of the Reaper War, and the galactic community is just now getting back on its feet. But as old threats emerge to threaten a hard won peace, new blood is called to ensure that that peace is lasting. (Uses my own interpretation of the Destroy Ending)

As Commander Shepard slowly rehabilitates and settles into her first year of marriage with Liara post-Reaper War, she grows tired of the galactic community painting her to be some kind of hero, feeling like anything but. As part of her healing process Diana Allers has agreed to help her write an autobiography, but Shepard has trouble opening up about her past.

When a regular, underappreciated, working-class serviceman who wanted to be something greater than one of the faceless millions of the Alliance Marines is chosen to be a part of a response team to a distant distress call, he thought it was his chance to prove his mettle. Like a moth to the flame, there's no where to go but down...but death is not an escape. It never was.

Commander John Shepard hunts down the rouge Spectre Saren. All he has ever cared about was the mission ever since a tragic day in his life. Ever since that day he's been afraid to let anyone get to close to him, afraid to make attachments. That is until a certain quarian engineer joins his crew.

Humanity has united together, and began to explore the solar system. However a sudden discovery throws a massive wrench into the plans of the Alliance when their newest ship suddenly disappears. Now, in uncharted territory, Shepard must reunite her crew and return home, but what is she to do about these spiky aliens that seem to want to help? First contact AU

The coming-of-age tale of a Paragon Spacer MaleShep. Young Martin Shepard and his father, Captain Michael Shepard of the Systems Alliance Navy, move to Halcyon Station, where Captain Shepard is assigned as Commanding Officer. There, Martin witnesses events that challenge everything he thought he knew, and ultimately, he must find within himself the warrior he was born to become.

Due to a drive core malfunction, a human vessel arrives just in time to save the Council Envoy from the yahg. What happens when humanity enters the galactic stage not as the race that got attacked by the turians for breaking a law they weren't aware of, but as the race that saved a turian platoon from certain death? M for wartime violence, pre ME1 - ME3, no OP humanity.

Mass Effect 3, DLC Citadelle: Personne n'a oublié le moment où Shepard découvre l'existence de son clone, et se confronte à lui pour la première fois au fin fond des Archives de la Citadelle. Perso, je trouve qu'un face à face d'une telle intensité dramatique... mérite bien une petite variation humoristique!

My main ME AU Mass Effect story of Thane Krios and Commander Shepard. Will have canon missions, but not a canon story. Starts with Shepard's life on Earth, extends past ME3. This story relates to my Andromeda story. Warning of rainbows and butterflies and NSFW content. Rated M. I'm not a professional writer or editor.

A woman with a dark past, with even darker secrets. Some even unknown to her. Everything begins to unravel once Mercy Shepard herself unravels, allowing herself to remember who she was in a different reality.

[AU] Jasmine Shepard joined the Alliance but instead of following the path that would lead her to save the galaxy, she became a Phantom. Working as an assassin for the Alliance's unofficial program, Jasmine encounters Thane Krios when they are both assigned the same target. Bested by the drell assassin, Jasmine pushes herself to surpass Thane but gets more than she bargained for.

Anderson had a lot going for him. He was only 28, had a successful career, was the top graduate of the N7 program. He proved his worth in the First Contact War and could have any position on any station that he wanted. So why was his life falling apart? Then he meets her. Some small kid that was all skin and bones. Anderson and Shepard find a family with each other.

A Reimagining of the Systems Alliance, where humans never found the prothean ruins on mars. We don't have access to reality breaking laws of the Mass Effect. We fought tooth and nail for every technology we have. And now we show our true faces as we stand alongside our quarian allies in the First Contact war, and beyond. As Realistic as I can make it and prepare for many cameos.