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.

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.

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.

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?

When a mysterious vessel ambushes and obliterates the Normandy SR1, Ashley and a band of survivors find themselves fighting for their lives, embracing faith, and clinging to hope, on the edge of habitable space...

Happy Valentine's Day everybody! This is just a one-shot of Lucy and Liara figuring out what Valentine's Day means to them :) [Based on the original story where I am working with information up to Chapter 37, but I tried to avoid major spoilers if readers haven't made it that far yet and am intentionally vague in some aspects in this one-shot!]

For biotickaidan for the Mass Effect gift exchange on Tumblr. Amelia Shepard was a lot of things, but she would never call herself a romantic. That's why turning to fraternization surprised her so. And when fraternization turned to an actual, genuine, using the l- word relationship? Why, that was about as romantic as she'd gotten in years.

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

Just a classic day at the office for Jane Shepard and her friends.

In which Garrus Vakarian has to put on his old detective hat to figure out the case of who told Liara about Shepard and Traynor!

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

Our story takes place after Humanity narrowly avoids destroying itself and despite all odds manages to learn from its mistakes. Being a better, kinder species when they encounter another race in need they pull out all the stops to lend assistance.

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

An alienated, brought back from the dead war hero is thrust back into a galaxy unknowingly on the brink of annihilation. With the sole goal of ensuring a galactic future still exists, Commander Shepard's mission depends on the crew he assembles, on the choices he makes, and on the loyalties he gains. And fails on the deceit and lies of those he trusts the most.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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 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.

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!