The vast and untamed wilds of the Terminus System was a place ruled by the law of strength and cunning, where a person decides their own fate by the sweat on their brown and the strength of their back. Most importantly, it's a place where someone could go to get lost and never be found again, be it for good or ill reasons. "Hm, The Butcher of Torfan. Fucking pencil pushers."

Shepard pays Thane a visit, but her exhaustion weighs on her.

It's her job to protect all of her crew, but that day on Eden Prime it hadn't been anything as generic as that guiding her actions. She saw Kaidan Alenko in danger – Kaidan specifically – and she knew she needed to keep him safe, no matter what.

With the number of OCs growing as the story continues, a number of readers have asked for this, so we decided this could be a useful (and maybe necessary) tool to help keep track of them all. We'll continue to update this as required, and if you happen to find any characters we have forgotten to list, please comment on it, and we'll get them added! Hope it answers the mail!

The SSV Mogadishu has been ordered to scout the Sparta System for anomalies. Finding a derelict ship in possession of Alliance military hardware sets them on a collision course with a black operations unit tasked with keeping their organizations' involvement secret, at any cost. - This is a shorter story connected to a larger one that I'm working on.

One year on after the Reapar war ended Garrus gets an unexpected visit from Miranda and Liara who admit to him that Shepard has been alive all this time, but she's in the hands of Cerberus. How will he handle it when he finds out the women he loves doesn't remember anything over the past sixteen years and has unwittingly been working with the enemy.

Garrus & Elle's journey together continues into ME2. They have a mountain of baggage between them, a painful past, and a galaxy to save. They each need to heal and forgive if they'll ever have a future. ***This is the third work in the series. You will miss things if you don't read the first two installments.*** Some canon, some not, but it's Bioware's sandbox!

Shepard survives, and decides he wants to be a little selfish for once and pursue the one thing he really wants. A Family.

Based in an AU at the end of the First Contact Wars, Commanders Shepard and Vakarian are paired in an arranged marriage designed to strengthen the bonds of interspecies societal cooperation and form a diverse military built by some of the best minds in history.

After they failed at repairing their relationship, Liara returned to Illium, hoping that some space and time will help Shepard figure out what she wants in life. But when Liara is kidnapped, Shepard is forced to set her priorities straight as she rushes to save her friend. Maybe Shepard isn't sure what she wants, but she is certain who she needs by her side.

The time was now for Tali and Shepard to have a private moment before they charged headfirst into the omega 4 relay but was Tali prepared?

"Synthesis is the final evolution of all life." That's what the Catalyst claims, but it's really not all that it's cracked up to be. After being forced into this 'evolution', Jordan Sower ends up in Mass Effect with two purposes: Save the Galaxy and Synthesize all life. But he doesn't take orders from the Catalyst! Follow Jordan as he tries to change things for the better. Maybe.

Marcus, Jack, Kelly, and Samara are visiting his hometown of Glasgow. It turns out that Marcus' mother has a teensy problem. Can our intrepid heroes solve it? Of course they can. Can they solve it without leaving the city a smoking crater? Mmmmaybe... (A 'sidequel' to "Tango 'Til They're Sore", but much sillier.) Rated M for language and some suggestive situations.

Tela Vasir: Corrupt Spectre working for the Shadow Broker. The real question is, why is she like this? How could an esteemed Spectre fall so far from grace? Well, that's a long story, starting with her first mission after her induction into the Spectres. Read on about her story, involving the Broker, the Vorcha homeworld, a rouge STG agent, and the infamous Uplifting Protocol.

Humanity never developed FTL. The Prothean archives contained no technology, no Element Zero, just a warning. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy for two thousand years, restricted to their only system, how will humanity have changed when they first meet the Turians? AU, alternate history of humanity and First Contact.

This story follows the life of Eudo Baptiste (OC) as he helps find a new alien race, and works to prove himself worthy to follow the legend of the great Commander Shepard. (Warning for spoilers, violence, and language)

Summary: Nyx and Kaidan practice long distance flirting while keeping up polite appearances. a/n: Prompted by @painterofhorizons for #1 (Good sex deserves to be loud) from the SEXY PROMPTS meme

I'm the God-Emperor of the Universe, and this is my Favorite Store on the Citadel!

Part Four of Foreign Relations, the Reaper invasion is here. Sidda and the team race to stop the long dreaded Reaper invasion and deal with deep personal losses and mistakes. Last part of Foreign Relations. Space/Adept/War Hero Shepard. Lots of OCs. I do not own Mass Effect.

The tank is stored on Lazarus station instead of Minuteman. Shepard stumbles, fumbles, bumbles into a clone pod. Shenanigans ensue.

Exploring the friendship and extremely slow burn building relationship between the Senior Medical Officer of the Normandy and her Commanding Officer, and her friendships with the crew of the Normandy.

Cora knows she has feeling for Scott Ryder. As well she knows he has feelings for her. But trying to understand what that all means is different

Love. It's what everyone searches for, what everyone yearns for in the depths of their souls, whether they realize it or not. It is known in the Milky Way Galaxy that everyone has a soul mate out there somewhere in the universe. Someone that holds the other half of their soul. Someone that it is perfect match for them. Someone they can truly trust their heart with.

Someone has to pay for the trillions of deaths at the hand of The Intelligence. The council begrudgingly agrees to re-instate Humanity's first Spectre despite being a Reaper now. With the task of assembling a team of the best to track down and eliminate the Leviathans. OCxGarrus. OCxThane. OCxAria. Accepting OC submissions for new crew! Cannon shipping! Possible future lemons

Elehnia Shepard wakes with a disarrayed mind, is this nightmare really life? The only moment she feels alive are battle and his touch. But she can barely hold on as it is, sometimes the darkness is just too much.. This is meant to be a collection of short stories, but they all connect to the same character (WARNING: Brutal violence, light smut and harsh language)