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...

It's not easy to blaze a trail when carefully-crafted plans go out the window. Yet, that is the exact situation the colonists aboard the Nexus find themselves in when their arrival at the Heleus Cluster is marred by unforeseen circumstances, challenging everything they know. The frontier that is Andromeda remains open - if they are able to rise to the occasion.

10 years since the war ended. The last mass relay is built and Normandy's crew gather for its activation. But something goes awry and an explosion opens a rift. Sucked through space and time into another universe 3 years before the Reaper Invasion. What will Shepard change? How will it change her? Inspired by Found by Kate Shepard on AO3 Beta edits by Kogarashi: Progress 6/20

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

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.

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

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)

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

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.

Beca Barons is a writer struggling to succeed in publishing a story, and a life-altering event curtails her progress towards that end(….)The accident opens a "tear" between parts of her mind where her "creations" and those of others she has known, come forth to rescue her from the precipice of death(….)Now, inside her mind with her Constructs of the stories she has written from….

The Reaper War may have ended twenty-five years ago but the scars that it has left behind on the galaxy still run deep and red. Aboard the SSV Hippocrates, flagship of the Systems Alliance Research and Development, three Spectres find themselves up against a new horror. Come bear witness to a humble bromance, badly-timed flashbacks, and the re-imagined fates of old friends.

Scott and Tali have earned the peaceful life they fought so hard for. While the galaxy slowly heals from the onslaught of the Reapers, the various species work together to rebuild, and exceed, what was lost. However, a series of terrorist attacks committed by an unknown group threatens to hurt that stability. Are they just a band of malcontents? Or is there more to uncover?

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.

Braith Shepard finds herself in Colorado on Earth in 2192, encounters a brother-in-law of Thane Krios, living a life of isolation in a small town impacted by a comet years before the Reaper War came to pass for their cycle(….)Both become involved with each other, not certain about the other's past, and Braith inexplicably becomes pregnant.

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.

Commander Shepard is well acquainted with death. Her life is full of death. But for Shepard, living is harder. What happens when the fight is over? How do we cope with limitations? What is important now? How do we choose to live? Do we grow, or do we wither? This story takes place in the 10 yrs after the Reaper War. A Mass Effect story; Destroy ending, FemShep x Garrus

The combat drone installed in the omni-tool Cerberus gave to engineer Evangeline Shepard is a sophisticated piece of equipment, and there aren't a lot of safeguards isolating it from other systems in Shepard's omni-tool or within Normandy's servers. The combat drone's journey to sentience. Part poetry, part prose, part experimental. Multiple POVs. S/G and J/E, but isn't relevant.

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.

Shepard fights his toughest foe yet, his own psyche, as Liara tries to convince him he doesn't have to fight this battle alone.

Goddess of mind, goddess of heart - closed-off without consent, She cannot flourish; unlocked to the universe in trust and control, She protects from all outside influences. Only one sits atop the throne of Shepard's subjectivity. Ashley/FemShep, Liara/FemShep. Miranda/FemShep, Aria/FemShep. Power plays, intense loves. Renegon Infiltrator FemShep. Spans the Mass Effect Trilogy.

(AU) When humanity ventured out of their homeworld they found proof of alien existence. When they found the Mass Relay they found new worlds to settle on. When they found element zero they developed new technologies that pushed out their scientific knowledge. Then they tried to create artificial intelligence... How it ended? With LOKI and the mech family.

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.

Shepard's awake now. She claims to be fully healed as Grunt and Orrin follow her into space. Through thick and thin the three travel as they are forced apart, and together. Ever searching for the rest of the Normandy crew. Of course, death follows soldiers and wounds take time to heal. (This story is a direct sequel to Escaping Death Yet Again.)

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

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong", the old saying goes. Survivors of a freak accident that took place in 2023, two brilliant scientists are recruited into Alliance Task Force "Cerebellum" to work on cutting-edge technology alongside other talented minds. Little did they know, their work would slowly end up reshaping the galaxy as an ancient enemy emerged from dark space.