In a chaotic post-war galaxy hatred, guilt and devotion still endure as everyone struggles to rebuild the once besieged worlds and the mass relay network. Adversaries emerge bent on exploiting the chaos to find a path to secure their own power.

Betrayed by the Galaxy she saved. Her life taken from her. Her only thoughts reform it. Even if she must destroy the very Galaxy she saved. She will save it from themselves yet again I do not own anything Mass Effect. Simply the story line. And Ideas from Call Of Duty Ghosts.

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.

A single spark can ignite a flame that will consume the lives of many. From a battle over a lonely relay, to a treaty signed on a space station that has acted as the crypt for a thousand civilizations, this is the first contact war

Shepard feels guilty for sending that asteroid into the Alpha Relay and destroying Aratoht. She goes down to the main battery to discuss this with her close friend, Garrus. The two find they have more in common than meets the eye...and maybe a little more. Budding Shepard/Vakarian, AU, set after Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC.

Cast into the world of Mass Effect with Gamer-like powers, our hero must navigate The Great Game of politics, war, and simply life in general as he prepares for the ultimate arrival of the Reapers. Can he rescue the galaxy from certain annihilation? Mass Effect Gamer fic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The continuation of Mass energy

The Citadel Council - an organization tasked with maintaining the peace, stability and prosperity of the known galaxy. It is a task they had mostly excelled at since the Krogan Rebellions. The Councilors have the weight of the galaxy upon their shoulders and have to constantly balance the needs and interests of their governments and people... Competent Council AU.

After stopping the coup attempt on the Citadel, Kaidan re-joins the crew on Normandy, with a lot of questions for Commander Kacey Shepard about her time with Cerberus. It's about time he got an explanation! A causal retelling of Mass Effect 2 and a slight AU for Mass Effect 3. KaidanXFemShepard

A Different Earth, one not secularized but instead united by the Christian faith. But not the Christian faith as we know it, but a far more older, more Eastern Christianity. An exploration into the interventions of a being known as Marutha and the spacefaring Humanity that results from it. Can the Galaxy handle Orthodox Humanity? Find out in Trisagion.

(Part II of ME: TheForgotten Soul After surviving their fight with two Cerberus agents, Martin and Velpia were able to focus on concerns on Omega. In early 2183 they leave the station and travel to the human colony of Elysium. While tracking down a red sand operation, things go south leading them to a conspiracy, chased by Cerberus, the Alliance, and a Council Spectre

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

Braith Shepard survives the fall of the Citadel and her ill-fated victory over the reapers. Five years later she is discovered alive in the isolated town of Cherry Lake, Colorado, alone but for the protection of a drell with an unknown connection to her past that she is not aware of yet…. (More) [A/N: Headcanon, Non-Canon Drell, Soterios Fandom, "Prelude" Sequel]

Garrus is betrayed. Ten men are dead on Omega. The gangs are already rebounding. Archangel is an unmitigated failure. After everything, there's no reason Garrus should be alive, but sometimes, people get what they don't deserve. "Just like old times," Garrus says, but it's not. It never will be again. An ME2 novelization. M for violence. Feat. Beth Shepard from The Disaster Zone.

What events shaped the man that would save the galaxy time and again? What did it take to forge the legend? This is a Prequel series to Mass Effect one, following the incidents that formed Shepard into the man he was during the trilogy.

In the aftermath of the war, Sol becomes a temporary home to the forces of the galaxy. But someone is abducting soldiers and stealing Reaper tech. Who? Why? With limited resources, the Alliance and the Hierarchy must work together to protect themselves from those who might threaten new found peace. This story is a companion piece to "Taproot". It may be read as a standalone story.

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

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.

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.

Journalist Emily Wong makes a startling historical discovery: The space aliens that some humans reported getting abducted by back in the 20th century may have been salarians! But what were the salarians doing on Earth back then and why? Wong vows to uncover the truth. A one-shot comedic short story.

A Navy Hornet pilot on a routine patrol encounters something he could only have dreamed of. Separated from the world he knows, will he have what it takes to adapt to life in the 2100's, and as a member of the Systems Alliance Navy? (Semi-self insert, rated M for violence, coarse language, etc.)