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Altair Act I: Canary in a Coal Mine by melissalde
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 May 2026
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A new ship. A reunited crew. A high-stakes mission on the galaxy’s wildest frontier. Years after going their separate ways, Jacqui Elissalde rallies her squad on Omega, determined to catch a turian serial killer who evaded a Spectre’s pursuit and slipped away from Council Space.
But heroism never goes unnoticed, and in the shadows of the galaxy, every bold move draws dangerous eyes.
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- Part 11 of Mass Effect: Corsairs (A Prequel Trilogy)
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Of Friends and Families : A Shepard and Zorah Story by Justin_Time
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 May 2026
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A chance encounter at a Mass Relay shifts Humanities destiny in a tremendous way. With the Alliance coming in contact with the Quarian Board, the Two Species become fast Allies in a Galaxy betting against their success.
But beyond the grander politics at play, we delve specifically into how this First Contact between Humanity and Pilgrims impact two pivotal Kids that were present for this incredible meeting. Specifically a Young John Shepard and a Young Tali’Zorah as their friendship with the other shifts into a unbreakable relationship as they grow up with each other throughout their adventures.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect : Shepard
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Anabasis (v2) by SomethingProfound
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 May 2026
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Emilia Shepard is dead. Ashley Williams is not.
(expanded, plot-ified version of Anabasis)
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- Part 5 of A Sea of Stars
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The Ordained by GroBP1oN
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Murder Drones (Web Series), Metro 2033 & Related Fandoms, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Video Games)
03 May 2026
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Billions of lives are being consumed by a legion of machines. Brave men and women have risen to stand against them — held upright by nothing but hope. This expedition was born from hope too. Find something buried under years of ice on a forgotten planet. All for the sake of the Galaxy, for what it's worth. But no one who boarded that ship expected it to end in yet another catastrophe. And the two who survived certainly had no idea they were about to open a Pandora's box... Because the planet wasn't dead. Life still stirs out there — in the permafrost, in the dark tunnels of the metro. Need I mention the sentient machines? Oops. Already said too much.
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Sometimes, when the ship was at its most quiet, Shepard roamed the hallways of the Normandy with her fingers brushed against the metal siding, listening to the strange creaking and groaning of space’s pressure against her hull.
Garrus caught her that night, while her hair was down and she was in the ragged hoodie she only wore when nobody would know. He blinked, clipboard in his hands shifting slightly. She smirked. “Running some calibrations?”
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Commander Shepard, The Greatest to Ever Live by Samael61
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 May 2026
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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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The Reapers are defeated, and the galactic community is barely holding together after the presumed death of Commander Shepard and the disappearance of the Normandy. The return of both – with unexpected complications – prompts a whole lot of questions… and very few answers.
Update: Now includes podfic!
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- Part 1 of Every One That Asketh
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It has been 4 years since the end of the Reaper War and Rhona Shepard has been destitute, homeless and alone in the same city as she grew up as a street kid after being set up in a scandal that took everything away from her and had her alienated
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- Part 4 of Sacrifice and Redemption
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What truly bridges the silent chasm between species? Is it shared pain, the fragile threads of friendship... or merely the hollow rhythm of a routine born from grief? The cosmos offers a thousand answers, yet none can fill the quiet.
You drifted into my orbit when the stars had all gone dark. The death of my brother, John, didn't just leave me alone—it left me unanchored in an ocean of shadows. And yet, with the steady hum of your voice and the sharpness of your gaze, you built a fence around my darkness. You became the only horizon I could see.
I fell, as stars often do, into a love that felt forbidden by the very laws of the galaxy. A love that wasn't meant to be. And when you were torn from my side, I wasn't left with a home, or a hope... I was left only with a variable. A cold, mathematical reminder of what I had lost.
They say the Galaxy only needs one Shepard to save it. But John was the hero, and I am only the ghost he left behind.
The Galaxy needs its Savior... but I only ever needed you
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The Reaper war is over, but Admiral Hackett's most crucial mission remains: find Commander Shepard's body. When two soldiers discover her alive in the ruins of London, the mission shifts from recovery to survival. With catastrophic injuries that should have killed her six times over, Shepard faces her hardest fight yet, and this time, the battlefield is her own body and mind.
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Male Effect! by 2etmeup
Fandoms: Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Halo
01 May 2026
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For a thousand years, males were myth. Every female of every species believed they had been abandoned by males due to their hubris. Then Harvest proved the legends wrong—males existed. Humanity, the greatest discovery since the Mass Relays, was declared the answer to their prayers.
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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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Mass Relay: Thedas? by StarrShineGirl
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
30 Apr 2026
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After the Reaper War, the Normandy was retrofitted into a diplomatic ship. Admiral Shepard and her crew of overqualified badasses have nothing to do but smile for photos and cut ribbons.
Then a very confused medieval knight falls through a magical portal into their shuttle bay.
Cullen Rutherford thinks he's been captured by demons. The crew thinks they've been boarded by a renn faire enthusiast. They're all wrong— and none of them are ready for what comes next.
A crossover about purpose, found family, darkspawn, and the unlikely romance between a genetically engineered biotic and a knight-in-shining-armor who didn't know what a shower was.
Also featuring: one galaxy-ending bioweapon, two krogans, a crisis of faith, an awesome vacation home, armpit punches, a pope-assassin, a porcupine, an overpaid chef with a vendetta, and several ogres getting headbutted.
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John Shepard is dead.
So why are rumors suddenly spreading that the Alliance kept him alive, somewhere far from prying eyes?Rumors. Confinement. Uneasy silence. Some say he might return to active duty.
But no one knows what it will cost.This wasn’t meant to go live today, but N7 Day felt like the right moment to begin this story.
Yes, it’s about Shepard’s death
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Just Like Old Times by VFraggle_Rock
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect (Comics)
26 Apr 2026
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Back from the dead, Shepard is thrust back into the driver's seat, leading the charge against the Collectors and the Reapers while the rest of the galaxy questions her sanity and the validity of the threats against them - just like old times.
ME2 Novelization - I started going AU in part one, Do The Impossible, so if you're just jumping in, some things won't make sense unless you've read the first installment.
Former Kaiden/Fem Shep romance although it didn't get quite that far in Do The Impossible.
Colony background, both the war hero profile as well as the ruthless profile
Shep was a soldier through and through for Do The Impossible - but all that is about to change.
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- Part 2 of No Pressure
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Wings by Tests_on_Seashells
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect
26 Apr 2026
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Falling in love with Cortez in the middle of a galaxy-ending war is a terrible idea, but Shepard can't help himself.
So Shepard and Cortez navigate building a relationship between breaking Alliance regulations, loss and chaos piling up around them and Shepard's reluctance to truly let someone in.
And as the final battle approaches, they both have to decide how to deal with all the possible outcomes, what to promise each other and what to better leave unsaid.--------
Set during ME3. Updates every Sunday. (I hope.)
There are too few MShep/Steve fics out there and they deserve some love, so this is me trying to do that.Series
- Part 1 of Anything for you
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In Her Element by saintnoir
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Apr 2026
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Her masters broke her until she was rescued. Her biotics were uncontrollable until her mentor guided her. Her soul was shattered until her first love mended it. Her compass was broken until her new family taught her how to live again.
She was a broken girl from Mindoir.
Until she became the Savior of the Galaxy.
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Mass Effect (to see through the eyes of a Turian) by Hunttijuntti
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
25 Apr 2026
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Freya is Garrus Vakarian’s older sister with a strained relationship with their father. She loves her siblings deeply, hopes to reconcile with her family, and cares for her mother’s health. She left Palaven while Garrus was still in the military.
Freya treats all species equally and values honesty. She is ashamed of the turians’ past actions, criticizes the First Contact War, and opposes the continuation of the genophage.I do not own anything from mass effect only oc is mine
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The Bells I Hear by Bobthemagiccow
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Apr 2026
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The Reapers have been destroyed, but to the survivors, the victory tastes like ashes. The Normandy wrecks on an uncharted planet, and a grieving crew must pull together to find a way home without their commander. At Sol, the shattered remains of the victorious allied forces struggle to survive, coexist, and reconnect to the rest of the galaxy. The greatest threat to peace comes not from without, but within. A heavy story of grief, perseverance, love, leadership, and hope in the face of devastation.