AU. It was just supposed to be a routine patrol, open a Mass Relay survey the system and report anything useful. Instead of finding a garden world or a deposit of Element Zero or Metals instead, they found a ship that no one recognises and a huge headache and technology which will change the Systems Alliance and humanity forever.

In the years since her family was killed, J.R. Shepard has learned to put the personal aside in favor of the professional. But as the galaxy's crises become her responsibility, as she gathers around her the people who will aid her, she finds a new family, and love that she never expected, and will have to learn how to put the two halves of herself back together.

Set in the Mass Effect universe with slight alterations. I do not own anything about Mass Effect.

Based upon the indoctrination theory, this along with 2 other stories will be uploaded making a complete ending for all three choices that you are presented with at the end of Mass Effect 3. I hope you won't be as disappointed with this story as I was with my last one. Name is directly inspired by the band Red Vox

The wing of a butterfly is made of numerous filaments, scales, cells of color and flexible material, but at the instant of a finger brush can be smeared and weakened. Peace is a metamorphosis such as a chrysalis that must be formed by a single unit interacting with many. And time takes it through the proper changes before it can form into its calling….

AU where both twins go down to Habitat 7, but only one makes it back to the Hyperion. Sara/Reyes, some Scott/Gil. Scott awakes on the Hyperion to the news that both his father and twin have died. Sara awakes in the clutches of the kett, alone and betrayed. After escaping, she finds herself on Kadara where she can be anyone. And if she plays the game right? She can be *someone*.

An elite Alliance squad of random mercenary misfits with an N7 to lead them, face their ultimate challenge... a new squad member. How will the squad handle the new member, and what dangers lurk in procuring him? Follow them as they follow the blazing trail that Shepard leaves behind in her attempt to save the Galaxy against the Reaper invasion.

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.

Gemma River. A young girl from the colony of Horizon, her life was just normal with her parents until the Reapers attacked her home. Waking up on the Citadel, confused and alone, can the help from Commander Shepard and her crew find Gemma's parents? And can Gemma be made to realise she's a lot more powerful than she ever knew?

Verna Calatus, a C-Sec officer, is sent late at night while she's supposed to be off-duty to solve an issue concerning a Hanar prostitute. It goes about as well as the Turian expects.

Part 2/3: Our dynamic duo boards the Normandy and begins training with the crew you know and love-who quickly realizes there is more going on here than mere collegial cooperation. Original story and characters based on the Mass Effect game series. Rated M for adult language, themes and/or suggestions. New chapter posted each Mon night-would love reviews, comments, suggestions!

AU. A world where Humanity was unified by a clique of scientists and engineers. Society has evolved alongside massive investments in technology and expansion that harnesses the inherent need for Humanity to grow and push at the frontiers. What happens when a technologically and politically coherent Humanity predict the existence of and finally meet the other species in the Galaxy?

Joker's the one who has to drop her into hell, over and over. He's her pilot after all, and he'd follow anywhere she asked of him. Ashe Shepard didn't ask for her scars but she'll bear them all just to bring Joker home to safe harbour. Canon-related AU where Joker and Shepard's relationship goes back to the Academy. Slow burn Shoker. Many liberties taken with lore/canon.

Lt. Commander Shepard, White Death of Elysium, borderline pariah, new commander the SSV Normandy. Hackett tasks her with the thankless, redaction-heavy missions N7s train for. Along the way she forms an unlikely band of misfits into a highly effective army, and discovers just how thin the galaxy's veneers of normalcy are. (An AU/"Reaper-free" TV-Show-format series.)

Commander Shepard is the sole survivor with a synthetic sole, among other augmentations due to the Akuze incident. She's suppressed her emotions and ignored persuasions to retire in her willingness to continue her tour of duty, relying on medication to help with her nightmares and the phantom pains that have persisted. People think it's determination. It's just a distraction.

Shepard didn't expect to wake up after shooting the power conduit. She knew that she had chosen her end. The end to it all. But then she takes a breath, and then another. She finds herself alive, after all that's happened and struggles with her newfound third chance at life. FemShep/Liara T'Soni

Armor and uniforms worn by Alliance personnel

The 16 ranks of the Systems Alliance and their duties

After the Reapers are destroyed, Shepard and Tali try to find each other again, reliving memories along the way. Note - This is my first foray into fanfic writing, and this is a little unorthodox. I've borrowed quarian ideas found in other stories that are attributed to Calinstel (among others, I'm sure). I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it. Keelah se'lai!

Vetra and Sidera Nyx land on the frontier planet of Mirrard looking to settle down and find a lasting place to call their own. But unbeknownst to them an act of mercy threatens to kill them all after a chance meeting with a member of a clan with a major grievance against Turians. "I did it because you hated them more than you loved me."

HMS Isaac Newton and HMS Alexander Fleming open the Shanxi Relay. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. The following course of events would lead to Humanity's first hot war in over a century, a war which could have exploded into full on Interspecies Total War, assuming of course the various human nations could even agree on anything.

Meet Aki Shepard younger sister of the Great Commander Jane Shepard, follow her as she travels with her sister and the crew of Normandy to kick ass and save lives.

Alejandra Shepherd is many things: talented smuggler, charming rogue, excellent shot - even a decent bodyguard and escort, if the money is right. But a hero? Trade her freedom for sacrifice and (maybe) glory? No, thanks. However, when her path crosses with that of the SSV Normandy, Aleja is drawn into a conflict much bigger than herself.

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.

Following the events of ME3 Tali gets the crew to go on a search mission for Shepard but once the batarians find out that he is still he is alive they grow unhappy and a war is a possibility…