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.

This starts pre ME1. Alivia is sent to Akuze and Krysta Shepard deals with Torfan.

For centuries, Bantons lived on Faultoth, oblivious to the greater worlds beyond their own….until the day "The Assembly" arrived.

In the days soon after the events of Mass Effect 2, Commander Emily Shepard, Joker and Tali are handed a mystery by Aria T'Loak. With Cerberus involved, Shepard takes it up.

In which Shepard, Zaeed, and Miranda run into a different sort of recruit on a rough mission. Shepard, needing all the help she can get, decides to bring him along. WARNING: Mature Themes Abound!

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.

Ari Shepard finds herself drawn towards Jack. Maybe it's similar backgrounds, or maybe the two have more in common than they both want to realize.

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

With friends and family at her side, Dr Liara T'Soni travels the galaxy, digging up the long-lost trail of the Protheans. Setting aside her life as an active Spectre, Shepard settles into domestic life (of sorts) to accompany Liara on her journey. Finally, a life full of peace, love and happiness becomes reality… and the long-awaited little blues get to make their appearance.

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.

The continued story of Scott/Sara Ryder and the crew of the Tempest as they try to reestablish communication with the Milky Way galaxy as well as reveal the horror of the Reapers War to the Andromeda Initiative members.

Action conspiracy thriller set between Mass Effect 1 & 2. Deep, fun & complex OCs galore, most carried over from my first story. Fast-paced, action-packed and filled with canon side characters taking full advantage of ME's rich universe. A little bit of angst/trauma. Some bloody but not gory violence, a little foul language and some seduction & romance. Full synopsis in my bio.

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

This story revolves mainly around John Shepard and Miranda Lawson. The story of their separation and reunion... and of course the Reapers are coming. Only John and his friends believes the legend of the Reapers. Can they stop the cycle of extinction which happens every 50000 years?

Shepard, who is barely alive and stranded on the abandoned Citadel following the firing of the Crucible, struggles with insanity and isolation, finds his love for Tali the only thing keeping him going; while Tali, who is stranded with the rest of the Normandy crew on an unknown planet, finds her love for Shepard and the events in London constantly haunting her.

Another Mass Effect I? Well yes but this has already been written once by the great krogan warrior22 who has unfortunately abandoned fanfiction writing. This was his first ever fic and even though the general story is great, its grammar leaves a lot to be desired. The general structure of this story is going to be the same, but I will be adding content and editing it.

(Book I) 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….

(Book II of "Spinners: Lothiraxl) Freed from her vicer trip, Kina is able to connect with her former powers, but there are some "hiccups" in the way to flowing freely with what was her birthright.

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 Tree of Vea Lacei was made from Them, and the roots spread.

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.

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...

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.

After Shepard's body is recovered and awoken at the start of Mass Effect 2, his body is still recovering from the rebuilding process. Cerberus Operative Miranda Lawson is in charge of ensuring Shepard makes a full recovery back to his proper health and that he remains in top physical and mental form at all times. To that end, she looks for different ways to help Shepard.

An Unwilling Individual is tasked to Protect the Bunker that contains Valuable Data for any Space faring species that finds this Bunker to extract the Data, it may sound simple but the time period is set in 1 CE