What if the events of ME2 had happened before ME1? After the disaster of Torfan Shepard spends 5 years in prison. Upon her release she is recruited by Cerberus to investigate the mysterious disappearances of entire human colonies in the Terminus Systems and find the answers to the questions that torment her: Can war criminals ever redeem themselves? Should they even be allowed to?

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.

Seeing Jasmine's clone has brought up some old ghosts that Kaidan thought he had laid to rest. ME3/Post Citadel DLC, before Cerberus Base

The war is nearly at its end, but what could happen after? A new story, please follow and leave a review so I know how I'm doing! Cover Art Credit: deviantart . com/jennifer-manzanera/art/Commander-Shepard-624130725

This is the full rewrite of the original Interloper, first posted almost ten years ago. Summary: Follow the adventures of Michael Liddle as he quite literally falls into the ME universe. A self insert covering the events of the first entry of the series. Follows the story of the Normandy crew and more as they strive to save a changing galaxy.

With the Reapers at the galaxy's edge and Jane Shepard incarcerated, Aria T'loak finds her relationship with Cerberus becoming ever more complicated. Forced to turn to the Illusive Man for help in the face of tragedy, the spiraling politics between the two parties seems to lead to only one conclusion. Violence. Sequel to All Creatures Great and Small. Non-canonish.

The various regions of the Mass Effect galaxy

Knowing what is going to happen, but not the consequences, I will save everyone I can using the most unlikely in a futuristic era... magic

It's been 3 years since the end of the First Contact War and tensions are high between humans and turians. To avoid the breakout of another war, the council has chosen to select a human and turian to live together as an example that the two races can live together While the well known human thespian Lily is excited for this opportunity, the turian ambassador's son Kato is worried

For years, Liara has managed to conceal the fact that she was in love with Lisbeth Shepard, but the Asari matriarchs have a proposition for them both that could change everything.

Quinn Hurd is a motorcycle courier on Camala. Tasked with delivering a highly sensitive package, she is accompanied by an armed escort. Trouble is, he's a batarian. The job turns complicated and so do their feelings for each other. OC x OC

At the start of 21st century, Earth is attacked by aliens. One human was (un)lucky enough to wait out the turmoil on an alien ship. This is her story. This also is a story of Aria T'Loak who could've excelled in a less righteous society. An AU story. Asari aren't as evolved as we're used to, Quarians aren't as sweet. Other species maybe show up later. M rate for later chapters

EDI monitors her crewmates, hoping to learn more about Organics, and more importantly, how to implement humour in her core programming. She wonders about the idea of dating and learns what drives Organics to do it, forming a hypothesis on whether Synthetics would also benefit from the experience.

While other species fear spend as little time as possible in the void opting for the easily accesible garden worlds the majority spending all their life never leaving it humanity embraces it they go out with abandon go out of the light homeworld and never look back.

I'm not a good person. I've killed, and will continue to. However, here and now I have a chance to be better. To make the galaxy better and I'm going to take it. No matter what I have to go through, what I have to endure. I will help Shepard create a better galaxy, even at the cost of my life I will help create a better galaxy. Updates every Saturday.

The son of a turian leader wanting to escape his father's shadow joins the Andromeda Initiative. The only thing he regrets is never finding the duct rat girl he met as a child. He doesn't know if it's fate or a life playing a joke on him when he meets a woman that reminds him of the same girl 620 years later.

SAM wanted to experience feelings through her? Well, buckle up, because Sara Ryder had a crapton. Game novelization, liberties taken.

Seven years after the Skyllian Blitz turned her world upside down, Dr. Maggie Shepard has finally put her life back together, finding happiness and peace on Eden Prime. But when the colony is attacked over a recently-discovered Prothean beacon, she is reunited with the one person she's spent the last seven years trying to forget.

My two OCs from the Mass Effect universe, it ties ME 2/3 to Andromeda. I haven't followed the games precisely, it's my own adaptation. Enjoy!

Mass Effect AU. The Systems Alliance never existed, instead the Terran Federation rose from the ashes of the third World War in the 2050s with the aid of AI and cybernetic technology resulting in a 25 year cold war with the Citadel Council after the First Contact War. But as tensions begin to ease the dark shadow of the Reapers looms...

Ashley Williams finds herself at the heart of a blood feud between her distant ex-lover and the Milky Way's most infamous information dealer. (Sequel to "Don't Get Too Close." Alternate Universe - Canon. Story events closely follow those of ME2: Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC.)

The Protheans eliminated the Reapers but their population has dwindled to hundreds and unable to continue their empire. How the story would go without the Reapers. FemShep.

Liara T'Soni is a very determined archaeologist who isn't worried to do a little tomb raiding to discover ancient knowledge. Cam Shepard is an ex-Alliance mercenary with a thing for people much smarter than she is. There's no way they'll get up to anything dangerous together, right?

Total war demands victory at any cost. After the destruction of the Bahak System, Emilia Shepard returns home just in time for the Reaper invasion. The galaxy finds itself in a race against time: win the war before there's no one left to fight. ME3, canon-divergent with a focus on the milscifi and off-screen moments, multiple POVs, paragade Shepard.

What if Shepard was raised by Wrex? Vanguard Paragon Shepard. Eventual Shakarian.