What's a man to do when he wakes up as a Quarian in Mass Effect? Pull up his bootstraps and backpack his people to victory.

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 2 of 3 Complete

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.

"A Single Event within a species history can turn a species into something that would of once been seen as an impossibility to those watching said species. And yet the History of Humanity seems so redolent in contradictions that would make their Ancestors quake in Horror for what they would eventually Become" - Matriarch Lindaya Professor of Species History. !AU FANFICTION!

The twenty-third century begins on Lothairaxl, where an immortal Braith now offers consulting services, and a certain drell wants to try his fate with a second chance.

The Citadel Council and the Turian Hierarchy has been at war for a good half of a century. Eager to break the stalemate, The Hierarchy seeks out a new ally in a rising Systems Alliance, bringing the war back to full speed. The Alliance now goes through it's trial by fire, as it emerges from obscurity into the galactic stage. (AU no Krogan Rebellions/First Contact Wars)

Four hundred years into the Long Exile, the Migrant Fleet is on the brink of collapse. Every day, the quarian people inch ever closer to extinction, with any dreams of a new home seeming ever more hopeless... Until Captain Rael'Zorah makes a discovery that will shake the foundations of galactic civilization for eons to come.

Vincent Shepard (1 of 5 Shepards). Vince was a freedom fighter arrested in Detroit, sent to the converted prison, The Palace. Alliance navy recruiters found him and convinced him to trade his sentence for military service. He made his way into special forces, N7 and from there to the notorious black ops Echo Team. This is a glimpse into early ME2 timeline from his perspective.

Tali'Zorah has been indoctrinated, and the crew of the Normandy is left to find a way to pick up the pieces and figure out a way to bring her back. A quasi-sequel to my fic, A Quarian's Awakening. This will be explore an alternate ending to the original. Reading the first is not required, but recommended. Starts from Chapter 5 of the original fic and proceeds from there.

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.

(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

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.

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

The answers to the question, What If Shepard was the only one to go through the Conduit (the relay on Ilos in ME1).

Commander Shepard is the sole survivor with a synthetic sole, among other augmentations due to the Akuze incident. She's suppressed her emotions and ignored persuasions to retire in her willingness to continue her tour of duty, relying on medication to help with her nightmares and the phantom pains that have persisted. People think it's determination. It's just a distraction.

The Citadel Council has grown complacent, and corrupt. It chooses to be ignorant of the many threats lurking in the shadows of space. Shepard had warned them of the Reapers, and they chose to ignore these warnings, but what happens when they encounter an empire similar to the Geth with a habit of extermination similar to the 'not real' Reapers? Rated M for War.

A woman from present day participates in a CIA Black-Ops experiment playing with the idea of reincarnation. When it works, she wakes up to a literal sinking ship and is saved by a blue-eyed stranger that, for some reason, she trusts completely. When she finds out where and when she is, she offers to assist them in their impossible quest. What Agent doesn't want to save the world?

Shepard survives the explosion and ends up in a hospital in a coma, after she wakes up she and garrus take life slow and focus on recovery and relaxing. after Shepard recovers from her injury the two run into a new problem.shepard is pregnant

This story is the realization of a thought experiment, incorporating an early First Contact Scenario with an Alternate History Worldbuilding Project I am working on. The World of the Turing Protocol is going through a Proto-Cyberpunk Revolution, with several advanced technologies achieved early. The story catalogues the reactions of this society to the wider galaxy and vice versa.

Jack and Miranda CAN be friends... All it takes is a little positive change.

If you, dear reader, would like to read the intimate tales of the most remarkable volus within our galaxy, read on, and I shall keep you within my heart week after week for as long as you shall have me. Behold, these are the Annals of Niftu Cal, Biotic God!

A different tale of the cloned Shepard and his finding himself as an individual, starting at the attack of the Citadel.

The combined might of the galaxy failed to defeat the Reapers. Now, four hundred years after the fall of the last planets, all that is left is the Lost Fleet. A combination of every spacecraft that could escape, the fleet roamed the space between stars, fighting against forces left behind by Reapers and time. But, the biggest enemies may lie inside the fleet itself.

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.

In a quiet hospital in Europe, months after the end of the Reaper War, there is a patient. He cannot wake, cannot dream. Every day, a quarian watches over him. Protecting him. Loving him. And hating every moment without him.