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.

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. Warning: Heavy Detail

A rouge spectre and an ancient sentient spaceship threaten all life in the galaxy with extinction. The only ones who can stop it are a misfit crew of soldiers, mercenaries, a disgraced cop, a prothean scientist, and a quarian engineer. This is an AU retelling of Mass Effect; it will span all four games and more. As always Mass Effect is a property of BioWare.

Garrus doesn't understand why Valentine hearts aren't shaped like human hearts and decides to find out. Cross-published on AO3.

From the gutters to the stars, Gale Shepard clawed a path out the bloodstained dirt of Earth. She always was a firm believer of charging forward. From the skies to the dirt, Liara T'Soni dug a path through the bloodstained bones of Protheans. She always was a firm believer that the most important truths were rooted in the past. They're simple ideologies, complicated by collision.

The continuation of Mass energy

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.

Citadel was supposted to be Giant. Massive and unchalenged. But sometimes, Giants have legs of clay.

Bruce "Ace" MacKinnon was a damn good fighter pilot. Earning a reputation for crazy piloting skill and tactical genius, traits that pilots rarely have both of, he enters the Normandy crew as a secondary pilot to stop Saren and his Geth. (Tali/OC) (M for violence, sexual themes, profainity, dark themes) My first fanfic, please critique as required! Some plot alteration

In 1958, NATO and the Warsaw Pact come into contact with a hostile UFO. It seemed to defy the laws of physics with the way it moved and the way it's mass seemed to almost...fluctuate. In a joint effort, the two powers defeated the aliens, but only just. Now, the aliens have returned, and only one organization has any hope of stopping them: the Xenonauts.

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

Follow the perspective of an unknown member of the 43rd legion, a Turian military unit, as they embark on an invasion of a primitive planet.

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.

The Citadel council learns about the multiverse and just how scary or friendly the new species they’re about to meet can get. (Rated M to be safe due to games such as Halo, Cyberpunk, Dead Space, Dune, and really just anything related like that)

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. Did some simple editing mostly time scale after the war and before current events. Will do more editing

Before the final charge to the Citadel Shepard is locked away captain's cabin thinking over. Everything that will happen has already happened. Going to change this story a little bit in some ways. I thought of adding something called the Rise of Humanity and fall of the Asari, Turians, and Salarians/ will be revamping. I am going to be added Andromeda chapters soon

After too much killing, after too many hard choices in service of the alliance, Cyra, the eldest of Shepard's Asari daugthers, starts her life anew on a frontier world in the Terminus Systems. What will she find on this remote backwater at the very edge of the know galaxy? Adventure? Friendship? Love? All of the above? Let's find out. Multiple OCs. M to be on the safe side.

Commander Shepard wakes up after being killed in a surprise attack by a mysterious alien ship two years earlier to discover she's not the real Shepard, but a clone created to house spare parts in the event something happened to her true self. Jane has to wrestle with the circumstances of her creation and forge a new identity beyond the shadow of the galaxy's biggest hero.

I think we can all agree waking up as a guy in a woman's body would be jarring to say the least. Waking up as an asari? Horrifying. But waking up as what I had the incredible misfortune to be... Let's just say I wouldn't bet on me surviving long enough to see the Reapers make their grand debut. Asari SI, starts just before ME1.

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.

After destroying the Collectors, The Normandy has been dropping off the hired specialists. Shepard has one more crewmember to say goodbye to before returning to Earth to face the consequences of the Bahak Disaster. Rated M for language. Part One of a six-part series.

Due to a drive core malfunction, a human vessel arrives just in time to save the Council Envoy from the yahg. What happens when humanity enters the galactic stage not as the race that got attacked by the turians for breaking a law they weren't aware of, but as the race that saved a turian platoon from certain death? M for wartime violence, pre ME1 - ME3, no OP humanity.

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.

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? Do we grow, or do we wither? This story takes place in the 10 years after the Reaper War. This is a character driven story, with some larger plot elements at play. Updated every 1-2 weeks.