Shepard's entire crew is dead. Now he has to work with an Alliance-funded black ops group secretly disguised as a terrorist organization to recruit and manage a racially and ideologically diverse team of aliens and humans to wipe out the Collector threat that's been plaguing the galaxy with the help of a 'dead' Reaper.

A slight reworking of the Alliance rank structure that makes more sense

Miranda Lawson was used to being in control, whether it was of her life, her sister's safety, or her work with Cerberus. From the moment she had returned from the dead, Evan Shepard had challenged that on every front. With their goal in sight, can Miranda trust Evan enough to let go? A Miranda/FShep romance covering ME2, ME3, and maybe beyond.

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 Veronika "Nick" Shepard, Hero of the Blitz and Sole Survivor of Akuze, is candidate to be the first human Spectre. She has a loyal crew to help her succeed with her mission, and finds not only camaraderie, but also love. Her relationship with Kaidan Alenko is put through a severe test, though. Canon divergent. Rated M for later chapters.

Drunk Jack, Cranky Kolyat and Imperilled Oriana

When confronted with evidence of bribery, asari CEO Benezia T'Soni makes a decision that will irreversibly alter the course of her life. To protect her family's reputation, she offers her body to a devious, lustful human Spectre.

La guerra è finita! Shepard è sepolta viva, viene recuperata in uno strano stato di incoscienza. Dovrà intraprendere un lungo viaggio, ripercorrendo i suoi ultimi quattro anni attraverso i ricordi di Liara, a volte meravigliosi altre volte terribili. Il suo amore, il loro legame invincibile, sarà l'unica cosa capace di tenerla aggrappata a quella promessa ... "Io, ritorno sempre"!

I woke up in the dark, and found myself in the world of Mass Effect after being cryogenically frozen, I knew I couldn't stop the Reaper invasion, but I could at least help to fight it... Self Insert. Rated M for Violence, Language and Sex

Shepard is stolen out from under Cerberus's nose before they can wake her. The warring factions who still want her body lead her right to Omega… and Garrus. Shepard/Garrus.

After Saren attack on the Citadel the council need some new actions. The have their newest spectre to help track down any infomation she can about the reapers even though they won't publicly state that the reapers are real. What seems like mostly boring missions ahead, it starts to take a more serious issues then anyone can predict. Fair warning Sherpard is a female with a dick.

The war is over! Shepard was buried alive and recovered in a strange state of unconsciousness. She will have to take a long trip, retracing her last four years, through the memories of Liara, sometimes wonderful sometimes frightening. Her unlimited love, their invincible bond, will be the only things can keep her holding on that irrevocable promise ... "I'm always coming back"!

An injured Shepard is finally looking to retire after a long and arduous career. However, he first needs to use up all of his accumulated shore leave to qualify. Will he be able to enjoy some quality time with Tali, or will they be interrupted by another threat? More importantly, will Shepard even be able to defend himself?

Jack writes poetry; Ashley reads poetry. A conversation starts on the calmest, most rational place around: the extranet. [COMPLETE]

Commander Jane Shepard is known as the best of the best from her fighting to N7 training. Thane Krios is known as the best Assassin in the entire galaxy. Can two people who are so different find love between fights, war and the disappearances of entire human colonies?

Some people spend their whole lives searching for love, others stumble into it completely by chance. Nicola "Nikki" Shepard was devastated when her childhood sweetheart left Mindoir, but fate is a fickle creature and in the long run it was probably for the best. Starting with brief snapshots on Mindoir and other events pre-ME1 then hopefully continuing throughout the trilogy. F/F

They say the Asari are the longest lived race in the galaxy, thing is, you gotta be stubborn to live a long life...and if I've learned one thing in my two millennia walking the earth, is that humans are stubborn as sin. And Janet Marie Shepard? She's the worst of the bunch, I mean, she convinced this old Hoplite to join her crew. How's that for worthless, Reapers?

With the Geth invasion of Eden Prime resulting in Saren's immediate arrest, a warrant for Commander Shepard's arrest, and radio silence from the Alliance, a great divide is made within the atmosphere of Citadel Space. Unrest, protests and relentless patrols have Garrus Vakarian exasperated at the galaxy's inability to get along. [Rated M for Language, and also eventual romance.]

The essence that is Commander Shepard has fought the battle against the Reapers more times than she can count, only to find herself right back where it all started. Never the exact same body, never the same first name or history. The disembodied voice struggles to break her way through to the consciousness of her current incarnation, trying to find a way to break her own cycle.

Shepard is a being from a parallel reality. And has come to help fight against the Reapers.

What if the Prothean hid asari on planet Earth as one of their many plans, what would happen if asari and humans lived side by side for thousands of years before space travel started? This is that story. image taken from

John Shepard is gone. The Normandy destroyed. Her pilgrimage, a journey of self-discovery, hope, and love, comes to an end. Left to wander back to her origins, she finds her home now estranged, haunted by a specter of what was and could've been. It is the end of dawn, but amidst the echoes, heralds light on the horizon. The sequel to The Fall of Normandy. Mature content.

A single spark, a single event, can change the lives of many and shape civilizations. From a silent Relay far from everything, to worlds only freshly known, to a grand space station that has served as the time to a million peoples across a million lifetimes, one such event was the First Contact War. [Version Two]

The Reds, red tape, and everything in between intertwine Garrus Vakarian and Shepard in a murder investigation on the Zakera ward. Garrus is an up-and-coming officer at Citadel Security. He leads the murder investigation on Aptis Casotin. While Shepard, a former Alliance marine with ties to The Tenth Street Reds, finds herself stuck in the middle as a confidential informant.

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.