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?

These stories are just fragments of Jonathan Shepard life through the first three games and his life afterwards. These stories will also be of his family. What lies ahead for him, his lover and his children? The stories are in chronological order, and one will explain another whether it's next or further down the line. Shepard Stories is currently being edited.

Humanity was considered too violent to be allowed in Attican Traverse and Citadel Space now alone and isolated humans must be w with a Gamer in the mix it's time to help humanity reclaim what is theirs. Wait what do you mean I'm a Demigod! A Demigod of who! aw crap!

Shepard's awake now. She claims to be fully healed as Grunt and Orrin follow her into space. Through thick and thin the three travel as they are forced apart, and together. Ever searching for the rest of the Normandy crew. Of course, death follows soldiers and wounds take time to heal. (This story is a direct sequel to Escaping Death Yet Again.)

For a long time the krogan hand endured centuries of disrespect from the other species. But for three siblings from the Urdnot Clan, they will be given a chance for a better life...

As Vetra Nyx and Sara Ryder finally make it to the planet Kadara for a little climbing race and a great view of the horizon, the two eventually open to one another...

[SYOC - CLOSED] With Shepard gone, the Council has quickly forgotten about the Reapers, and the Alliance has lost much support from the Citadel. Deciding to work around the problem, Anderson activates a new project to protect humanity: a special team, whose missions will take them far beyond enemy lines, into the depths of hell. They are not good nor bad, they are the Helldivers!

Wrex made the breeding request for Shepard after Gruntès Loyalty mission, this is my take on how that would go. Character's are Bioware's, I'm just playing with their dolls.

After being exiled from the migrant fleet, Tali decides to head to Earth with her new boyfriend. However, its hard to face an apocalyptic future when you've just lost the only home you've ever known...

After waking up in a Cerberus space station, Shepard demands answers and finds out that she had died two years prior with the destruction of the Normandy. With two years of her absence, how will the galaxy react to her returning, and how will she react to what the galaxy has become?

The Reaper War may have ended twenty-five years ago but the scars that it has left behind on the galaxy still run deep and red. Aboard the SSV Hippocrates, flagship of the Systems Alliance Research and Development, three Spectres find themselves up against a new horror. Come bear witness to a humble bromance, badly-timed flashbacks, and the re-imagined fates of old friends.

Turians and kittens through asari eyes. Coz we love 'em both. Admit it, you've been thinking about their similarities too. / Meaningless fun and guilty pleasures

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.

Unwilling to give up their reliance on artificial intelligence, humans decline the offer to join the Citadel after the First Contact War. However many in the Systems Alliance recognize where that leaves humanity compared to the other races - far behind the curve. As humans scheme to catch up, the Council finds itself wary of its new neighbors. (Some Halo thrown in)

I'm not a good person. I've killed, and will continue to. However, here and now I have a chance to be better. To make the galaxy better and I'm going to take it. No matter what I have to go through, what I have to endure. I will help Shepard create a better galaxy, even at the cost of my life I will help create a better galaxy. Maybe this can be my redemption. Completed

Thane watches Shepard step between Garrus and Sidonis, and history repeats itself. Shepard/Garrus, Thane/Irikah.

After having made several interviews and an entire documentary with the Pathfinder herself Sara Ryder, and even getting to know each other more, Asari journalist Keri T'Vessa finally finds herself falling into attraction as their relationship finally blooms into something deeper and closer...

Stella Rhys, a reincarnated soul, was given the opportunity to change things for the better. She doesn't plan to surrender to fate, nor does she plan die as a footnote in history. This is her chance to make a name for herself.

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.

It is the year 2215, and the galaxy needs Commander Shepard.

Cerberus has spent billions of credits trying to bring Shepard back from the dead, and despite the odds it seems to be working. Then a saboteur makes his move and Shepard's resurrection takes a horrific turn, leaving both the Alliance and Cerberus scrambling to control the situation...all while the Collectors begin their harvest of humanity [PREFERRED EDITION ON AO3]

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

They survived Sovereign, Saren, and an army of geth. When the Normandy returns to the far reaches of the galaxy, they come across a nightmare best lived in tales. Stranded and against the Collectors, they fight for life. And each other. Tali/Shepard Pairing. AU. Intro to Dark Matter Theory. New approach to Collectors. Prequel to The End of Dawn.

After three years of warnings and denials, the galaxy is now faced with a threat they never believed they would face: galactic genocide by centuries old, sentient machines known aptly as the Reapers. The fate of the galaxy now rests on the shoulders of Commander Kacey Shepard, a talented Commander who's career is built on performing the impossible. Retelling of ME3.

What does it take to recover in the aftermath of the Reaper War, particularly through the lens of Garrus's grief over Shepard's presumed death. With the crew scattered in their mourning, searching for meaning and purpose in a universe that has been irrevocably changed. The faint hope sparked by Tali's discovery provides a glimmer of something to hold onto. It's a story about survi