The Systems Alliance launches multiple programs as an effort to mend humanity's image to the galactic community as a whole, as well as expose the marines to other species to facilitate proactive collaboration. Ensign Shepard signs up for research patrol duty as her first assignment. [Slight AU: Jane and Liara meet 10 years earlier than the events of ME1. Co-author: HappyMistake].

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.

It's lonely at the top. Newly minted N7, James Vega, discovers this for himself when he receives command of the Normandy. He's responsible for a new crew, balancing duty and self-doubt. But when vulnerable children begin to vanish, he must summon all his leadership skill. Aided by an undercover Miranda Lawson, they aim to take down the criminals that endanger them all.

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

New version posted Dec. 30, 2022. In this war, there's no where safe to flee to — just one very fast ship, her (in)famous commander, her ace pilot, and all the people they collect. A Star to Steer Her By sequel.

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.

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

Cora expected many things when she came to Andromeda- hostile aliens, banditry, lethal storms while exploring worlds for settlement, and . She had prepared, though, She had readied herself for all of it...except for developing an attraction to Scott Ryder. The Pathfinder himself ! Lexi, fortunately, is available to help her out.

I was chosen because I had thought it through and because I knew what pain and suffering was. Now I have the chance to see if my ideas can help Shepard save the galaxy. SI.

Just a fanfic with an original character named Liam who emerges as a key player during the devastating attack on Mindoir. Amidst the chaos and destruction, Liam is able to save the life of none other than Shepard, the same legendary soldier we all know. The story starts years before the OT but it will continue till the end of the third game plot! Go on and follow Liam's adventures.

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.

What would happen if Jack was a little different? How would events play out for her, what effects would such a minor change have? Pseudo-SI, it basically disappears after the first few chapters. There is definitely trigger-worthy events in this story, just think on Jack's backstory. The M rating is well deserved to say the least.

As humanity and other Council races develop along the path set by the Reapers, a different civilization is born. Developing alongside but separately from other species, isolated from the wider galaxy. An Empire with its own FTL technology, independent of Mass Relays. What will happen if a civilization so different from others in almost every way, joins the Galactic community?

Physical science enjoys the distinctions of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole / "Matter And Energy", Frederick Soddy.

Self-Insertion, logic/realistic approach, close to canon, no crossover. / Completed Mass Effect 1, ME 2 WIP. You have been warned.

Here are some episodic Star Trek esc adventures following fem Shepard and her crew. Follow the morally ambiguous Commander as she foolishly gets in over her head when she decides to indulge her curiosity about her Turian colleague.

Five times James Vega got set up on a date ... and one time he didn't.

An ME2 novelization that starts with Shepard's and Tali's reunion at Freedom's Progress. An alternate history where Shepard returns with her and is welcome into quarian society, while struggling with his own inner demons.

When I bought the Legendary Edition of Mass Effect I'd expected to re-live the wonder of the game, I never expected to actually 'live' it though

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.

Space, the last frontier between humanity and sky, we broke that frontier and now we face a galaxy completely unknown to us, with its secrets and horrors waiting to be discover. The council of the citadel and all his beings under its banner will face the horrors that this galaxy presents and the gods who awoke from their sleep. Where death is the sleep of the gods. (H.P Lovecraft)

This story is different from my others because of the lack of mythology. It begins when she is five years old and ends up a duct rat in the underbelly of the Citadel's Wards - and will continue past ME3. It will have all the main characters and some of my own. Remember, I'm not an editor, there will be typos. The story is for mature readers only.

Braithlyn Anne Shepard is Sunset Red. This is the story of her beginnings, intertwined with her life in various stages of her development from a small precocious child through the kidnapping from BAaT to her reunion with "Big Paw" Anderson…A non-canon, alternate u. with a twist on all her meetings with friends, enemies, and loves.

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.

"Our tribute is a lovely statue of your old friend Saren." Old friend. That was one way to put it.