A story of the Cycles, told forwards and backwards. AU [No Shepard]

(Kinda AU): Shepard is just a tired doctor, working on Omega, who wants nothing more than to curl up, watch her favorite elcor soap opera and eat the best Asari-Asian cuisine that the station has to offer. However, on her way home, she finds a mysterious, wounded turian that goes by the moniker, Archangel.

Cerberus has spent billions of credits trying to bring Commander Jane Shepard back from the dead, and despite the odds it seems to be working. Then a saboteur inside of Cerberus makes his move and Shepard's resurrection takes a horrific turn, leaving both the Alliance and Cerberus scrambling to control the situation...all while the Collectors begin their harvest of humanity.

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.

James and Shepard go out for New Years Eve. Fun and smut ensue.

The Reaper War exposed humans to the galactic community at the pinnacle assault on earth. In the aftermath of the Crucible's success, survivors on Earth and stranded galactic races need to work together to survive and thrive. #Alternate First Contact #Slight Canon Manipulation #Post Reapers #Rated M for weight of subjects and occasional mention of smut

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!

This story occurs in the time period of Irikah's life, having married Thane and permitted him to return to his usual skill work(….)She interacts with Kolyat in Thane's absence as well as within the context of this author's "Drellverse". Story is somewhat canon-"compliant", but surprises do exist.

Follow the path of the Wanderer and journey through three galactic cycles of life and death against the Reapers - an epic of lost stories spanning the distant reaches of time to the Normandy and her crew. Updated every Friday.

When confronted with evidence of bribery, asari CEO Benezia T'Soni makes a decision that will irreversibly alter the course of her life. To protect her family's reputation, she offers her body to a devious, lustful human Spectre.

A very developed being who has the ability to control energy decides to enter the mass effect universe and aid Shepard in his adventure. rated M for swearing (rare)

Inspired Mass (an Inspired Voyage spinoff)

Zhoru'Shepard asks his father some unexpected questions.

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.

What would happen if someone with vast knowledge about the Mass Effect Universe, both official (wiki/Codex) and theoretical (fanfics), decent fighting ability and a plan was dropped into that Universe 13 years before Eden Prime? As it turns out, quite a lot! FemShep. Soft HFY. And a very different kind of self-insert.

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.

The wings of a butterfly are a unique network of filaments, hard and rigid structures, fragile and diaphanous membranes, cells, reflexes working together….Every piece essential to operating the wing's stability and coordinating its flutters with its team of three others, and an insect in between both pairs….Time is a factor, and perfect stability, in the moments of wait…

Quelques mois après la fin de la guerre, un soldat décide de disparaître, sans se rendre compte que cette décision va mener deux grandes puissances à la confrontation, dans une galaxie encore loin de la guérison.

Here find the backstory for the AUs that make up the DrellVerse and its character, world, and concept lore-building. Drells are credited to the creators within the Mass Effect universe.

Alicia Ryder, Pathfinder Liaison to the Nexus- never expected to be made Acting Pathfinder while waiting for news on her Father, his Protege and her Brother somewhere out there in space. The Hyperion isn't anywhere in sight, and neither are any of the others. They've got to figure out how to survive this situation- and now they've got the Murder of Jien Garsen to contend with.

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

For centuries Bantons lived on the forested planet of Faultoth, migrating to and from colonies in an endless cycle to allow sites of their homes furrow and farrow, time to replenish from use and abuse….

This story will feature male Shepard and Miranda Romance however they meet long before the events of mass effect 2, this story will also feature Mass Effect Two and Three. While there will be action this story will mainly focus on the Romance and Friendship of Mass Effect. This will be AU from the main storyline and changes made to Shepard

The world turns, even after a hero falls. Lines are drawn, blood is spilled, and in the shadows, an ancient power stirs. The galaxy needs a hero to rise to the occasion, and live up to her father's legacy...

A love story at its heart, "Spinners: Lothiraxl" is a new take on "The Martyr Effect". Lana Shephard returns as Lady Kina Tian, a woman who scrapes by on "pots" of earnings made off of the fights she competes in at gyms throughout her stomping grounds on Elan-Nine—and travels beyond the earthen world to space stations and other planets unlike what she has been brought up on…