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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

Celes S. Shepard has defeated the Reapers during the Battle of the Citadel. Even now, the sapient machine race enacts a plan for revenge against the galaxy's greatest hero, and all of mankind. Shepard must now band together a stronger team than before to face her newest challenge. All must stand United, less they fall dived as more victims of the sapient machines. (F-Shep/Kaidan)

One year after the end of the Reaper War it's finally time for the Galaxy to lay its hero, Commander Shepard, to rest. For her mother it is time to finally grieve all that went wrong with their relationship. For Kaidan Alenko it's a moment of truth about his long denied feelings for her.

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

Commander Cayden Hill, disillusioned former N7 marine and self-proclaimed space Maverick, becomes a skeptical Cerberus operative. His squad is aligned with the objectives of the more-famous Commander Shepard, but they usually end up with missions deemed not important enough to bother the Spectre.

Following Shepard's death, the galaxy has only one question: where is the body of the first human spectre? After receiving an anonymous tip, the human alliance has narrowed down a possible location. A grief-stricken Liara is sent to a desolate planet covered in snow to once again collect Shepard's body. However, plans quickly change when Liara finds herself stranded on the planet.

After firing the Crucible, Commander Shepard's mind is torn apart from the guilt of his actions. Thankfully, his biggest fear of all is fixed by his lover. Explicit Sexual Content (Like, very long smut). - Unrelated to Unexpected Alliances

A prequel of sorts in preparation of a roleplaying segment set in the Premiseverse, combined with expanding on understanding some of the pre-Prothean races and their impact on the current cycle. Warning, this is going to be hard and ugly sci-fi horror mixed with political maneuvering and science babble. Language, imagery and concepts are probably best not left to teens or children

Humans have been on the galactic scene for many years. Viewed down upon by many species, humanity has caught the attention of the quarians who have located and made contact with the Alliance Carrier SSV Einstein orbiting Mindoir. This meeting could create new alliances and will cause an earlier-than-intended meeting. There will be explicit sexual content.

Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the end of the Reaper War. The massive beings that once tried to destroy life, now help preserve peace. As the rest of the Galaxy moves on with their lives, Miranda Lawson struggles to forget. An ominous new danger reunites old friends and forces Miranda into a life she thought she'd left behind. Unrelated to the Fate series.

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.

Ru winds up almost 200 years in the future to join the Normandy crew and their fight to stop the reapers. Will she find her own place among the crew, a place in the galaxy, or even love? His is a story through an OC POV. [OCxGarrus]

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.