Commander Shepard is on the Normandy's shakedown run getting used to the new crew as well as dealing with the aftereffects of the Beacon as well as the political fallout with Saren. He finally notices Lieutenant Tabitha Ellis, and Adept who mostly keeps to herself but is a very talented soldier.

He was just a kid from earth. Who would've thought that 11 years later he gets sent on the most important mission in human (and galactic) history. Will Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy be able to defeat Saren in the race against time? Takes place before and during Mass Effect 1. (Earthborn/Sole Survivor/Soldier/Default MShep).

A woman from present day participates in a CIA Black-Ops experiment playing with the idea of reincarnation. When it works, she wakes up to a literal sinking ship and is saved by a blue-eyed stranger that, for some reason, she trusts completely. When she finds out where and when she is, she offers to assist them in their impossible quest. What Agent doesn't want to save the world?

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.

Humanity, despite its valient efforts, was going to lose against the Reapers, it was obvious. So they hid her, their sole ace in the hole. Garrus Vakarian has managed to stop Saren, albeit barely, and has drawn the eyes of the Collectors. Through chance, or fate, both eras will fight. Together, or eachother. Pre-Prothean humanity, M for cursing, violence and maybe sexual themes.

When I bought the Legendary Edition of Mass Effect I'd expected to re-live the wonder of the game, I never expected to actually 'live' it though

In the aftermath of the Reaper War, Shepard and Tali endure their own hells to come back to each other. (Cover art belongs to Epantiras on Deviant Art.)

Commander Shepard isn't as fearless as everyone believes him to be. Sovereign, the Collectors, and Aratoht have made Shepard doubt the Milky Way can survive the cycle. Hope exists, however, in another galaxy. (Andromeda reimagined, aims to be less disappointing and less controversial than the original.) Shepard/Liara

When Shepard was taken from Tali before she could confess how much he really meant to her she was devastated. With his return and the Reaper threat still looming over the galaxy, she wouldn't let him be stolen again. Tells a story of Shepard's and Tali's relationship eventually becoming a romance. Starting from ME2 and ending after ME3.

We don't get to choose where our story begins, where it takes us, and most certainly where it ends. The Reaper War may have ended twenty-five years ago, but aboard the SSV Hippocrates a Spectre takes his first steps on a journey that will decide the fate of a trillion souls.

This adventure features a different perspective during the events of Mass Effect 3. While Commander Shepard and the crew are uniting the galaxy against the Reaper forces there are others that are holding the line against the evil.

REPOST. Reality changed with the advent of Humanity on the galactic stage. Relay 314 proved cynics correct in many ways, alien life was the end of our golden age. Innocence was lost, understandable xenophobia followed. From the ashes of Shanxi arose the Alliance, new so called protector and unifier of humanity. Those who would dispute their narrative, rose alongside them. Cerberus.

They thought themselves invulnerable, invincible, and infallible. They thought themselves the apex of all life, they thought of themselves gods. But in their arrogance, the reapers would make a fatal mistake. They would not notice some Prothean refugees discreetly moved both nearby mass relays away form the primitive humanity, thus cutting them off from all reaper influence.

Shepard worried that Liara will overwork herself, convinces her to take a break and spend the rest of the afternoon with her. One-shot, set during ME3.

Garrus' thoughts and feelings regarding Commander John Shepard were easy to understand and explain: He respected and admired the human Spectre and would follow him into hell in a heartbeat. His feelings regarding his crewmate and friend, Lieutenant Jane Shepard, however, weren't as clear cut. She'd taken up residence in his head and wouldn't leave. Parallel AU, Part 1 Complete

Coming to terms with being reborn? Doable. Finding out you're in the Mass Effect universe? Slightly more difficult. I know I'm no soldier material but I want to do what I can to help save the galaxy. To that goal I will become one of the worst beings in human society. A businessman and politician. A SI/OC-story of a different kind.

Making more Sara Ryder/Suvi Anwar time since they're totally the OTP of ME: Andromeda, but they don't get nearly enough airtime. Ryder isn't a stranger to running into trouble. Sometimes head first, over and over. Today ... is that day. Ryder hurt/comfort/whump; Suvi adoration (because obviously); the team being the team; and general fluff alert for the touchy feely stuff.

Rewrite of Life in Gray. Garrus and Shepard throughout the trilogy and beyond. There is no Shepard without Vakarian.

"Director's Cut" of the ME epic, fleshing out who our heroes are and how they got that way. Slowly veering off to an AU: The Savior of Elysium IS the Butcher of Torfan, medevac Jenkins, Liara returns to Ilos to reboot Vigil, Shepard rescues Kenson w/ Thane & Kasumi, Aria gets executed, Legion knows TIM is indoctrinated, the Collectors have directed TIM to scuttle Normandy...

A navigational error sends a mass relay far off course. The effects of this are tremendous.

When Indigo Carter moved to the Citadel to study music at Auxua School of the Arts, she thought she knew what to expect. However, she certainly never imagined she'd be making the acquaintance of a failed hitman trying to ride out the tidal wave of his own past. Life is such a messy ordeal that when the Reapers come, they almost feel like a welcome cleaning service.

Javik isn't pleased to wake up in his pod again, this time entirely alone. Less so that he finds himself fighting alongside a mouthy Gunnery Cheif soon after. But the real kicker? He's three years early. Or; Shepard chooses Yellow, and instead of someone responsible who cares about it, the galaxy gets Javik, who really just wants death at this point. He hates this Cycle.

In another life, Scott and Sara Ryder never took the chance at venturing to another galaxy. They had enough trouble staying together in their own. Yet as hard as life in the forgotten corners of the galaxy could be, they had each other. That was enough. It had to be. Omega AU. (Scott / Sara) Sibling Incest.

The galaxy struggles to heal 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.

The galaxy sees them as pests, the Collectors see them as tools and they see themselves as nothing more than bodies to be sold as mercenaries. Maybe all that's needed is a little genetic engineering for the Vorcha to realise that their potential as a species is limitless.