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In 2186 the Reapers attacks the galaxy and Commander Shepard leads the crew of the SSV Normandy (SR-2) against the Reapers, traitors and Cerberus in a war for survival. At the tip of the spear, Shepard must uncover the secrets of the protheans and the Reapers to halt the unstoppable force of terror.
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One minute, you're doing your nth run of the Mass Effect trilogy in your pajamas, the next ... You're waking up in that same universe, which wasn't on your bucket list.
What was fiction five minutes ago is now terrifyingly real. You’re expected to function as Earthborn Commander Shepard, morally gray and questionable coping skills.
Your only consistent backup? A chow-chow-shaped mech dog named Sebastian who silently judges your every questionable life choice.
Knowing what’s coming doesn’t make it easier. The choices still hurt. People still die. And the weight of saving the galaxy hits different when you’re the one holding the gun.
You’re holding it together with duct tape, caffeine, and pure spite.
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2169. Humanity reached the stars, and met its limits.
Once a classified subject at Gagarin Station, Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko carries the quiet legacy of the BAaT program: a body engineered for power, a mind trained for restraint, and a past that still bleeds through the cracks.
When he’s reassigned to the SSV Normandy, he expects duty and protocol — not Commander Shepard, a woman as driven as she is volatile. The galaxy is changing, the Alliance is watching, and control has never been harder to keep.
It takes measured people to survive a war. Shepard is anything but measured.
A canon-compliant retelling of Mass Effect 1 through Kaidan Alenko’s eyes. From the shadows of Gagarin Station to the fire of the Citadel.
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After the Reaper War, Athena Shepard works to rebuild a fragile galaxy alongside Garrus, newly appointed as a Spectre. As the Citadel Council seeks true reconciliation between organics and synthetics, a new interspecies summit begins laying the foundation for lasting peace—until a mysterious energy surge from the edge of known space interrupts the fragile progress.
The anomaly is traced to the Architects, ancient cosmic judges older than the Precursors. Fearing a threat even greater than the Reapers, the Council forms a unified task force under Shepard, reuniting old allies and welcoming a Geth ambassador named Myriad. Investigating a massive Architect construct, the team learns they are being watched—and possibly tested. Amid the growing tension, Shepard and Garrus decide to build a family that reflects the unity they fight for.
Their mission leads them to a hidden Precursor world where organic and synthetic life exist in perfect harmony. There they meet Galeina and her people, who evolved in secret to escape the Architects’ cycle of judgment. The Precursors welcome the Normandy crew as the first step toward a new alliance—one that could redefine the galaxy’s future as it faces an ancient and impartial cosmic power. -
The Bridge Between by Stanic
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Dec 2025
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The red wave of the Crucible changed everything. It destroyed the Reapers, disabled the mass relays, and apparently claimed the life of Commander Shepard. But nothing in this new galaxy is quite what it seems. As humanity tears itself apart and new threats gain power in the shadows of conflict, an impossible discovery will reunite the legendary crew of the Normandy for a mission beyond hope itself.
A post-ME3 psychological thriller exploring identity beyond sacrifice, featuring established Shepard/Garrus relationship.
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- Part 1 of The Bridge Between
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The first chapter details the grand and emotional wedding of Athena Shepard and Garrus Vakarian on the Citadel, a vibrant celebration symbolizing galactic unity and hope after years of conflict. The ceremony itself is a mosaic of cultures, with dignitaries and friends from across the galaxy witnessing the union of two iconic figures. Athena, radiant in a starlight gown, and Garrus, dignified in formal Turian attire, exchange heartfelt vows under blossoming trees, pledging a future built on love, resilience, and shared dreams.
A pivotal moment occurs when a tipsy Tali makes a heartfelt confession of love for both Athena and Garrus.
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Mass Effect: Inheritance Rewritten by tibios83
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda
08 Dec 2025
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The war against the Reapers is heating up. Shepard and crew are trying to do everything in their power to keep the casualties to a minium. But petty fights, old grudges and prejudices stand in their way. He knows that Humanity has prepared for this for over a thousand years, but he can't help feel that even with that amount of time behind them, things will not be easy. The Normandy crew are ready to take the fight to the Reapers and stop the endless cycle of death and destruction that has plagued the galaxy for billions of years. Maybe they can keep the galaxy from tearing itself apart.
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- Part 5 of Mass Effect: Echoes of Inheritance
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It's been a year since Victor Frankenstein took his last breath. With no choice but to live, Victor's creation accepts a favor from the Danish captain who had listened to both sides of a tragic tale. He has settled into a semblance of life as a blacksmith apprentice to Captain Anderson's brother, Elrik.
Evelyn Montgomery, mistreated by her brother and forced into servant-like labor despite an injury that leaves her crippled, finds warmth and kindness at the home of the Andersons, old friends of her family. She then meets Adam, the Andersons’ enormous, scarred and painfully shy apprentice.
(Continuation of the 2025 version directed by Guillermo del Toro.)
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With the Normandy SR2 impounded, its crew disbanded, and the Commander under investigation for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Kaidan finds himself lost in life yet again, the same he felt all those months ago when he thought his Commander was dead.
The deep betrayal had ruined his relationship with the man he always loved. Only a short time together was ripped apart when Shepard found out about Kaidan's spying on him for all their time together fighting the Collectors.
Now, investigations are underway, and word is spreading of the Reaper invasion slowly coming upon them. Shepard must team up with those he has fought with before to destroy the Reapers and save the galaxy for a third time. But can he and Kaidan move on from this big strain that ruined the trust they built? Or will even the threat of death and destruction still keep them apart?
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- Part 2 of Kaidan x MaleShep.
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Commander Shepard, The Greatest to Ever Live by Samael61
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Dec 2025
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Commander Shepard, the singular greatest soldier the alliance and the humanity as a whole ever had and ever will.
One man army whose mere name envokes fear in the hearts of the enemies of the Systems Alliance.
A force of nature protecting the humanity against the galaxy.
Or: A crack fic where Commander Shepard is greater than ever.
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Mother Knows Best by TheLivingMyth
Fandoms: Mass Effect/Invincible, Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mythology - Fandom
07 Dec 2025
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Long before the Citadel Council, before the Protheans, even before the mysterious Inusannon... the galaxy was not silent.
An ancient, ferocious race emerged - not by chance, but by necessity. Born from the will of nature itself, they were forged to challenge an enemy that had disrupted the natural cycle of life. For over 100,000 years, these apex beings - predators perfected by extinction - waged a war of attrition against the Reapers. Their story was lost, buried beneath the ruins of forgotten empires. This is the chronicle of that war. Of evolution weaponized. Of a species born to break the cycle. This is the rise of the Viltrumites. They were not created to preserve life.
They were born to fight for it.
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Thirty years since first contact. Thirty years of war between the turians and the humans. Shanxi, a human fringe colony in the Traverse, has been the epicenter of the fighting. And humans are in the eleventh hour, about to lose not only their colonies, but their way of life. The only hope they have left is a Prothean beacon found hidden beneath labs-- a beacon which could, if given to the salarians, turn the tide of the war. The problem is: the turians want it just as badly.
Commander Roni Shepard wears her uniform more comfortably than her own skin. But a traumatic injury from the batarians, a client race to the Hierarchy, has left her unsure of everything she used to be secure in.
Lieutenant-Commander Garrus Vakarian thinks outside of the box, much to the chagrin of his commanding officers, his father, and the very establishment he fights for. When he uncovers a dark secret embedded deep within his own military, he holds on to the hope that others can put a stop to it, even if it destroys everything.
When both of them are tasked with securing the Prothean beacon, their lives will intertwine, and everything they thought they knew flies out the window when a mysterious ship also comes to collect.
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Rewrite of The Crook·ed Step.
Ex-Commander Ethan Shepard has just been released from the army hospital. He needs to get back into living an everyday life, going back to something he was passionate about, reunited with old friends and old loves, or maybe possibly one that never got started
Main Pairing - Kaidan Alenko/Male Shepard
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Thane Krios’s sacrifice makes him a martyr to the long-lasting Drell nation that survived post Reaper War victory by the galaxy at large—or what remains of it after the Reapers harvested and destroyed most. The Hanar decimated due to Reaper indoctrination, and planets nearly wiped out by The Harvest, Drell have survived by the main facets of their culture that makes them so unique—memories. Nothing more powerful existed in a species as the ability to recall with such clinging clarity of detail, a people brought through ages of evolution to embrace that which made Thane weak to Braithlynn Shepard’s eyes whenever he was visited by irrepressed memories of his child and wife…Indoctrination…had and has no effect on Drell.
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The mass effect core goes bright, brighter than the sun. Energy arcs wildly, spastically, and the first structural contact is made by the asteroid. The structure fragments, energy rippling down its spine, all Shepard can see is the white core. It eats her periphery from edge to edge.
She does not feel the void out.
She does not feel anything at all.
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I feel the relationship between james and shepard has a ton of room for nuance and extreme sexual and romantic tension. So, this the Pedro fic on how the first sexual encounter with james Vega SHOULD have happened.
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This follows the second game of Mass Effect and continues where Class.i.fied left off
No longer on the run from her own species, former Operative Erinyes, finds herself trapped on her home planet. Unable to leave, and unable to send or receive transmissions when the Vextra sealed the planet, Erinyes finds herself in her own personal hell away from Garrus. The planet was sealed when she told the Overseers that the Reapers will be arriving soon after she helped defeat Sovereign.
Erinyes must now find a way to get off her home world and back to Garrus. She also needs to get the Reaper weapon schematics back from her abuser, and get the weapons into production. Most importantly she has to convince the Overseers to join the Reaper war of this cycle instead of hide.
A tall order from someone the Overseers see as an object and below them
Garrus exhausts his way through every possible thing he could think of to get her off world, whereas Erinyes decides to show the Overseers what the human phrase 'Fuck around and find out' means. Opting to make their lives as miserable as they made hers.
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Zero Parallax by ByteWitch
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Destiny (Video Games)
03 Dec 2025
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Even in an age of unity, war endures. In a universe where morality is seldom binary, true evil still exists.
Commander Jane Shepard, a marine of the Frontier Systems Alliance, is about to learn this the hard way.What begins as a routine pickup on a distant yet serene frontier world draws her into a vast conspiracy woven across galaxies and aeons.
An ancient enemy, purposefully hidden, the apex of life and synthesis of organic and synthetic.
A distant false prophet shaping the darkness into a perfect, Final Shape.
And the sins of humanity—twisted, weaponised, and spiralling toward atrocity.The peace humanity bled in the war with the Covenant for is crumbling.
To save the future, Shepard must face horrors born from the past… and the shadows that still lurk within humanity itself.Series
- Part 1 of Zero Parallax
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Yasmin Shepard is a lost soul in a new city trying to escape the scars of Christmas past. Not looking forward to spending the holiday season alone, she is given a new sense of purpose when she meets a stranger with a big heart, but she cannot outrun her secrets forever.
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What brings species together? Pain, friendship…memories,monotony or routine….There are many answers.
He arrived when I needed him most. The death of me brother John left me alone….and yet, you fenced off me darkness.
I fell at your feet, in a love that couldn’t be….and when you left me, all I was left with was a variable.
The Galaxy only needs one Shepard…and that’s not me.