Liara T'Soni is a very determined archaeologist who isn't worried to do a little tomb raiding to discover ancient knowledge. Cam Shepard is an ex-Alliance mercenary with a thing for people much smarter than she is. There's no way they'll get up to anything dangerous together, right?

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?

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.

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

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.

Final chapter of the Improvisation can take you a long way series. The arrival of the Reapers is imminent. A mercenary and an AI in hiding must prepare for their arrival in the absence of Commander Shepard. The Galaxy's combined firepower will only delay the inevitable demise of all organic life, but perhaps the eternal cycle of Reaping can be broken in a different way.

SAM wanted to experience feelings through her? Well, buckle up, because Sara Ryder had a crapton. Game novelization, liberties taken.

The galaxy turns innocently in the void, the Cycle making endless beginnings and bloody ends. The perfect solution has held a tenuous balance for millions of years. Not everyone goes easily into oblivion. Life strives to overcome, sowing forward seeds and hope of success. How would you cope? How long would you fight? What would you be fighting for? Mind your step, it is dark ahead.

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.

A chance encounter on Omega between two hunters, happens to result in some very unintended consequences. A Mass Effect AU that promises changes from some parts of ME 3. This is a Kai Leng/Morinth pairing, I want to write with depth to it, and major changes for them. This fic will deal with some potentially heavy themes and has spoilers for parts of the trilogy as a warning.

FemShep's investigation of Cerberus' nefarious activities, while she struggles with questions about her own identity. This story is not super canon-y, but it fits with the story, especially if you aren't too personally attached to your version of the characters. It aims to fill in the gaps and is told from Ash's POV. Rated T for blood-curdling swears. FemShep/Ashley (slowest burn).

A small town girl, secluded to her life on the farm, found herself in the ranks of the Earth's military, something she was content to do for the rest of her life. Little did she know her life was never her own to choose with what she did with it.

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.

The world ends. Life goes on. Shepard and Garrus pick up—and occasionally fight through—the pieces.

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.

AU Shepard was on the ship that had the first contact, and now weak and injured she finds herself at the mercy of a strange creature that seems to want to help her, but those teeth say differently. Meanwhile Nihlus wonders what exactly he has gotten himself into with this strange new species.

The Batarians found the humans first before they went into space. How will the humans behave now?

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.

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.

"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!

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.

Lieutenant Commander Shepard didn't know that she was never supposed to be on the Normandy, much less receive visions from the beacon on Eden Prime. But Fate, it seems, is a fickle mistress, and now she finds herself chasing a rogue Spectre across the galaxy.

Jared’s life changes when alien forces invade, transforming humans into entertainment by trapping them in their mind-made microverses. Suddenly, he’s navigating a reality of his own creation, battling for survival with a single aim: to find his way home.

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].