The Pulse is what the Quarians call the destructive wave sent out by the Citadel that destroyed the Reapers. It has affected their planet more than anywhere else. Desperate for answers, Tali is tasked - who is still on Earth helping Shepard recover - with finding those answers. What she finds could change everything - for her, for her people, and for those that have been lost.

The year is 2253, sixty-seven years after the war against the Reapers ended with their destruction. The galaxy has gradually been rebuilt and peace reigns between the different races in the galaxy. It is to maintain this peace that a squadron of the best pilots of each race was created in 2212. A group that quickly became a legend, becoming The Wings of Dawn. [OC Human/ OC Turian]

There was a time when they both thought all was well in the galaxy. That time has ended. A chance meeting between a soldier and a politician may change everything, but where will it lead them? In a galaxy ablaze, what will rise from the ashes?

What if humanity was diplomatically isolated from the Citadel races, left to fend for itself against the Batarians and other threats? This is an AU story of a humanity forced to struggle and fight for its place in the stars, with many points of divergence and some pretty significant changes made to the background lore. Contains violence and some mature themes.

Braith Shepard meets Casnar Soterios, brother-in-law to Thane Krios by the assassin's marriage to Casnar's sister, Irikah Soterios…

Shepard finds himself falling in love with the violent, complex woman known only as Jack. This is the story of their relationship from Mass Effect 2 and beyond. Rated M for language, violence and suggestive themes. Mass Effect 3 arc now in progress!

Everyone knows Shepard's story, but who were the soldiers who also fought in the Reaper War? This story revolves around five women who have pledged their service to the Alliance together. Time span: starts before ME1, ends after ME 3. In the later chapters also encounters with well-known characters!

After stopping the coup attempt on the Citadel, Kaiden rejoins the crew on Normandy, with a lot of questions for Commader Kacey Shepard about her time with Cerberus. It's about time he got an explanation! A causal retelling of Mass Effect 2 and a slight AU for Mass Effect 3. KaidenXFemShepard

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.

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.

Shepard and Tali are on the Citadel hunting for a new omnitool and some dinner when they bump into more trouble than they bargained for. Burgeoning Shep/Tali pairing

With a complete fallout on the Nexus after the capture of Torvi Ryder by the Pirates of Paradise, Jaal must go to Voeld to keep the outpost stable and get more aid angaran for the Initiative. There he meets up with Callie Laine who accompanies him to the Resistance Headquarters. Will she be able to trust him enough on the ride up to the headquarters? Will she be able to persuade th

After the death of the Archon, the kett leadership went to Primus. She has taken the kett and many species from the Milky Way for study. After three hundred years of waiting, the kett have returned and new heroes must face them. The new Mass Effect story begins in Andromeda with a hero that must unite two super powers to save them from the coming threat. Trust is the problem.

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.

Kaidan's life has never been easy. BAaT nearly drove him to madness, life after was a struggle, but now… Now he is ready. For whatever life tosses at him. Or so he thinks.

A detailed breakdown of the structure of the Human Systems Alliance and their vehicles. To create this, I have combined preexisting lore with my own head canon in order to organise and flesh out the Systems Alliance. This guide is tied to my novelisation of the mass effect games and is constantly being updated as I go.

Garrus is betrayed. Ten men are dead on Omega. The gangs are already rebounding. Archangel is an unmitigated failure. After everything, there's no reason Garrus should be alive, but sometimes, people get what they don't deserve. "Just like old times," Garrus says, but it's not. It never will be again. An ME2 novelization. M for violence. Feat. Beth Shepard from The Disaster Zone.

Jared enjoys his life, he's been going to college, has a healthy lifestyle, and plenty of friends. Everything is changed when mysterious forces come to Earth and make the populace into their entertainment; using peoples minds, they create microverses, force them to live there and be broadcasted for their race. Jared is thrust into a universe of his creation but he has to get back.

The Normandy crew had sacrificed much to stop the Reapers, but none more so than Commander Jane Shepard. She lives after the destruction of the Reapers. Come on her journey of love and hope after the war is over.

Shepard had pulled his ass out of the fire, delivered by airdrop or divine intervention or both. Now they were serving together again, shooting the shit, shooting their foes dead, and looking damn good while they did it. Garrus couldn't get a lock on why things were different this time around. But Shepard was his captain come hell or high water, and that was enough to go on.

It has been 30 years since the fall of the Reapers. But people from the Normandy have been slowly disappearing. Now with the Asari Councillor gone, the only people who can help, are the children from the Normandy.

Six months after the Battle of the Citadel, Arlen Kryik is an experienced C-Sec Interceptor on the hunt for a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile, the Joint Security Task Force team are dealing with a sudden, deadly threat to the Citadel. Amidst rising political tensions between the asari and turians, these unrelated incidents will collide in a way that will shake the galaxy to its core.

Sergeant Nick Clark was left Behind and now he has to find a way to survive and make his way back to the alliance. Forcing himself to dig deep and find a way to adapt and to remind himself that his an alliance marine and all that means.

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