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The Bridge Between by Stanic
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 Oct 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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Bahamut Effect: The Voidwalker Fleet by Demon_dark_mezzo_sangue
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Fate/stay night & Related Fandoms, Magic: The Gathering (Card Game)
12 Oct 2025
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The Citadel Council has been the pinnacle of the galaxy for millennia.
But one day, through a dimension portal, a hundred-kilometer-long Supercarrier arrives, with a crew of 1,000,000 made up of various alien races, under the guidance of an ambitious and eccentric leader, the Rogue Trader, Bruce Bahamut, a Planeswalker in search of new knowledge and stimulation.
The Citadel races are not ready for the arrival of the Voidwalker Fleet, who bring with them magic, science, mutants, psychics, clones, synthetics, and all kinds of wondrous madness.
The Galaxy will be turned upside down.
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- Part 26 of Chronicles of the Celestial House
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Commander Shepard had no idea what fate had designed for him when he landed on Eden Prime and interacted with the Prothean beacon. From humble beginnings, he would rise to lead the fight against Saren, return from the dead to face down the Collectors, before he would lead the charge in the war against the Reapers that would bring the galaxy to the brink of destruction.
Along the way, he would build teams, make friendships, and enjoy the company of women and asari. Numerous women and asari. They loved him and he loved them.
Relationships and characters will be added as they appear.
Comments / feedback appreciated as always.
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The Terran Calamity by F15E_Strike_Eagle
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms
27 Sep 2025
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After another First Contact gone awry, the UTF and UTSC is unwillingly introduced to another portion of the galaxy under the rule of the Citadel Council. Tensions between the 2 factions are high, but diplomacy keeps cooler heads. However it is clear that 26 years later that ice is melting. Fast. But one question remains... Who will crack first?
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An unlikely rescue makes an even more unlikely hero. Isaiah Shepard might not want to save the day, but engineers always get left to fix things.
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- Part 1 of EBIDTA
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Mass Effect: Binary Stars by BlueLynx96
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Sep 2025
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When Omega’s ruthless Pirate Queen crosses paths with an undead Spectre, something changes within these two powerful, pragmatic people. Will they devour each other, or will they become something the Galaxy has never seen?
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Harvest by Believer218
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Halo (TV 2022), Mass Effect - All Media Types
22 Jul 2025
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In the year 2291, explorers on Mars discovered the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization. In the decades and centuries that followed, these mysterious artifacts revealed startling new technologies, enabling travel to the furthest stars.
Now the year is 2583. Humanity stands strong, even twenty-six years after a disastrous first contact. But it seems that wherever they go, war will follow. This war will grip the galaxy like no other, and Master Chief Petty Officer John Shepard, by sheer circumstance, is caught right in the middle.
The first adventure in the Lost Legacy Saga.
Rated M for graphic depictions of violence.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect: The Reclaimer Saga
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Keeping a Galaxy Right by Normalguy
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Jul 2025
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This is Part 2 of my story Putting a Galaxy Right Again. Six months have passed and with relays coming back online, Councilor Shepard and his intrepid crew must take stock of the galaxy.
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- Part 2 of Putting a Galaxy Right Again
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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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All You Need is Love... And a High-Powered Sniper Rifle by Hero_Of_Crafts
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
27 Jun 2025
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Part 3 of "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love". First two works are "Commander Shepard's Lonely Hearts Club" and "Songs Without Jane". The Reapers have arrived in the galaxy, and nobody is ready. Shepard's officers failed in their task to prepare everyone for a war against extinction. Now they must turn the tide, with or without their leader. Jane Shepard is pulled back into the war after 3 months of incarceration followed by 3 more of house arrest. Everyone looks to her to save them. While she tries to do just that, Garrus's main concern is saving her from herself.
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Follow the misadventures of a renegade Shepard and Garrus Spectre duo as they relentlessly hunt down criminals across the galaxy, no matter the cost.
In an effort to bolster turian-human relations after the Relay 314 Incident - or First Contact War - the Council chooses two members of both species with like-minded attitudes in hopes that they’ll work well together, and in turn, show the galaxy that any lingering animosities between their species don’t have to hold the galactic community back.
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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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A Metal Guardian: Indefinite Hiatus by JawsOnYou67
Fandoms: Gundam Wing, Gundam SEED, 機動戦士ガンダム 鉄血のオルフェンズ | Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Gundam SEED Destiny, Universal Century Gundam, Gundam Unicorn, Zeta Gundam, Gundam & Related Fandoms, 機動戦士ガンダムAGE | Gundam AGE, 機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア | Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Robotech The Macross Saga, マクロス Frontier | Macross Frontier, Macross Delta, Macross - All Media Types, Macross Plus, Macross Zero, 超時空要塞マクロス | Super Dimension Fortress Macross, マブラヴ | Muv-Luv, Robotech, Code Geass, Gundam Build Fighters, Gundam Build Divers, Gundam 00, 機動戦士ガンダム0083 STARDUST MEMORY | Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Gundam ZZ, 機動新世紀ガンダムＸ | After War Gundam X, Gundam F91, Ace Combat, Armored Core (Video Games), Star Trek: Voyager
11 Jun 2025
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The Universal Century, only a few short years ago humanity nearly eradicated itself to the tune of a madman, now it spreads, free of most of its old hatred. Yet the galaxy won't let them rest. Humanity has finally formed into a single cohesive group of men, women, machines, and even a breed of aliens! Yet as humanity spreads through the stars, they encounter their own selection of troubles from both within and without. It is an age of exploration, Love, and Fighting. Humanity, still exhausted from the End War, sparked all to the tune of a demented clone, now seeks brighter places to rest.
Yet the galaxy is not as empty as they would expect. The Citadel Alliance, made of several species, has long held sway across its reaches, disregarding that of the Terminus System. Utilizing the Prothean Relay System to spread. Yet in a thousand years, they had not seen conflict on a large scale. As such, they have grown complacent, some would even say arrogent. Yet the unexpected arrival of a damaged Quarian Ship in a previously uninteresting sector, draws the galaxies attention towards the front door of a new and combative species. Now two worlds are soon to collide with one another.
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Illuminating the Shadows: A Conversation With Dr. Liara T'Soni by cybirdpunk
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 Jun 2025
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In this multi-part interview conducted 500 years after the Reaper War, Jordan Bakari of the Neo-Alliance Historical Review visits Serrice's maximum security prison to sit down with former Shadow Broker and convicted war criminal Dr. Liara T'Soni. They discuss the aftermath of the Athame Beacon scandal, the extinction of the Krogan, her role in shaping the post-war galaxy, and her relationship with infamous bondmate Jane Shepard. What does she think of the new galaxy? Does she regret her actions? And what does she know about Jane Shepard's mysterious disappearance? All this and more, only in the Neo-Alliance Historical Review.
(Act 1 complete, on temporary hiatus until Act 2)
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They were never lost. Only waiting.
Humanity was supposed to be gone—alone, forgotten, extinct.
When a Turian patrol intercepts an unknown probe attempting to activate Relay 314, they respond with swift and lethal force. What follows is not a diplomatic overture, but a revelation: they have not stumbled upon primitives, but survivors.
Beneath the soil of Shanxi lies a people shaped by the fall of two worlds—Earth and New Terra. Hardened, watchful, and resolute, they do not speak first. They endure.
The Turians came expecting primitives and dominance.
What they found were fortresses.
What they faced were the children of extinction.
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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.
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Shadows cast over the galaxy as a seemingly routine mission turns into a bloodbath. And in the middle of it all- there is Commander Tuana Tegrek-Shepard, the perceived pride of humanity. With the Normandy handed down to her, she leads her team through the marionette network of the best and worst. A race against time, before it breaks her.
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- Part 1 of Strings of Legacy
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First Contact with the Angel by Antors_Lucius
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game), Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War (Video Games), Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, crossover - Fandom
26 Apr 2025
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When he was injured during the Great Crusade, Horus rebelled against the machinations of Chaos and sacrificed himself for the Galaxy. In its place, Lorgar's Rebellion began, and was brought to heel. Now, several decades later, it finally seems the darkness has become a distant memory for the Imperium. On the 50th Anniversary of the Warmaster's death, a new swath of unexplored space would be found by accident, setting new possibilities or new failures in motion.
Remake of my story originally posted on FanFiction.net
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A new story begins...Markus, Anthony, and Natasha Shepard get nominated to become the first Human Spectres.
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The Q Effect by JayColin
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Star Trek Online, Star Trek, Stargate SG-1
14 Jan 2025
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Two vastly different universes collide when Q decides to send a pair of Federation vessels, along with a Klingon ship and a Romulan ship, into another reality, on a mission that could very well determine the fate of both universes.