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Where Hope Is Left So Incomplete by lottielovebuzz
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Nov 2025
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Nina Shepard has been through a lot in her life. Raised on the streets on Earth, joining the Alliance at 18, fighting to protect Elysium when she had been there on shore leave, N7 training. She does it with a brave face for it has always been her dream to rise in the ranks of the Alliance, but when she's called on a mission at Eden Prime, she finds that things are going to get a whole lot more complicated than she always thought.
First in series of novelisations that'll go through all three games and beyond, focusing on the Fem!Shepard/Garrus Vakarian romance
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- Part 1 of Blood On Your Lies
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Zero Parallax by ByteWitch
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Destiny (Video Games)
14 Nov 2025
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The Covenant War, Citadel Galactic Museum of War
In 2169, the Citadel Council turned its attention to the galaxy’s Frontiers—and found a world on fire. Harvest, a small human colony, was gone. Its cities were ash. Its people were dead. The attackers called themselves the Covenant. Their message was simple: humanity was a sin to be purged.At first, the Council regarded the war as distant, a frontier dispute of little consequence. Yet reports of new species, shattered colonies, and desperate resistance could not be ignored. The Frontiers were not just human. They were home to Maians, Nulls and others—diverse peoples who now fought and died together.
It is said the Council acted. Turian warships deployed. Asari commandos landed. Salarian operatives struck Covenant supply lines. Even the Elcor and Volus are remembered as standing beside Earth’s defenders.
The war did not end there. But something greater began—a united stand across species, governments, and ideals. From fire and ruin, the Citadel embraced the future.
The galaxy, we are told, changed forever.
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- Part 1 of Zero Parallax
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Juliette Has A Gun by chouettetc
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Oct 2025
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She's the Alliance's best spy and secret weapon. He's the one of the Council's newest Spectres and ex-Blackwatch operative. And if they don't manage to cause the next intergalactic incident from this assignment, they should both be showered in accolades from the Council.
But intergalactic cooperation is never that simple, is it?
Steamy, poignant, and full of action, this fic explores the darker and more complex version of female Shepard in a spy AU, and the space boyfriend we all know and love.
This is my first fic, but I've been dreaming of a spy thriller in the Mass Effect world for SO long. Can't wait to share this version of our reluctant, redheaded hero with you <3 .
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The Beginning of the End by bi0_h4zarD
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Sep 2025
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Basically this is just the story of the Mass effect trilogy told with some minor tweaks. Follow Commander Callisto Shepard through this story of tragedy, love, and all thats in between.
This is book 1, which tells the story of Mass Effect 1.
Welcome to The Beginning of the End.
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Commander Derek Shepard has been a soldier who gets it done, and with style. When he becomes the XO of his adoptive father, David Anderson’s new ship the SSV Normandy his life is changed forever. A dark foe waits in the dark to end all of galactic civilization and he must team up with new friends to stop this monumental threat. Part 1 of a slight cannon divergent retelling of the Mass Effect Trilogy.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect (Derek Shepard Series)
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“I just wish we had a tighter plan. Like time travel, or teaching the Reapers to love.” - Jeff “Joker” Moreau
The catalyst was lying. Because of course it was. It was the god-damned neural center of the Reaper hive mind. It basically invented indoctrination.
The worrying part was that Shepard hadn't realized that fact until halfway down the nice, death-march walkway.
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A universe where the Crucible isn't just an unrefined weapon. It's a scientifically-improbable time travel device. Now, Shepard has to redo/undo four years of history to win the Reaper War. Preferably before it even begins.
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After The Showdown On Feros, Derek Takes Liara To His Special Place.
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- Part 4 of Mass Effect (Derek Shepard Series)
- Part 1 of Training Facility Moments (Mass Effect)
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- 1,653
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- 1/1
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The first meeting between Commander Faith Shepard and David Anderson isn't the stuff of legends.
She tried to steal from him.
***New*** Added a tribute video to Anderson and Faith!
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Diablo chose to Destroy the Reapers but something isn't quite right when she "Wakes" up.
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- Part 7 of Diablo Shepard Stories
- Language:
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- 1,976
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- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
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- 31
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- Language:
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Comfort can be found in the arms of a lover
Several weeks after the Citadel exploded and the defeat of the Reapers, Commander Diablo Shepard has been found, but her lovers, Major Kaidan Alenko and Lieutenant James Vega are having a difficult time coping. Naturally, they turn to each other to help each other cope.
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- Part 5 of Diablo Shepard Stories
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- 3,883
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Shepard picks up a turian sniper named Archangel as an ally in her campaign against the Collectors, but something seems a little off about her. Why doesn't she ever take her helmet off? Why does she only go by her codename? And why is Shepard falling so quickly into her orbit?
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- Part 1 of A.V.
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Sovereign has been destroyed, and all seems to be well with the Galaxy, at least for the moment.
Commander Shepard faces a new battle, her own feelings towards a certain Lieutenant.
Post ME:1/Pre ME:2
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Kaidan's new CO is a dick and gets on his nerves. So why does Kaidan feel inextricably drawn to him?
A series of vignettes set throughout the trilogy.
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- Part 1 of Jack Shepard
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Armistice by elleirabrave
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors
02 Apr 2025
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The Alliance is losing.
For the last three years, humankind has battled ceaselessly against the turians, an alien fleet that launched a brutal war after humanity discovered ancient, forbidden technology. Despite humanity's best efforts, they are perilously close to all-out nuclear annihilation -- or a slow death by starvation as the skies burn and human colonies go dark.
Desperate for survival, the shattered remains of the Alliance's best undertake a mission with impossible odds: plant a bomb on the turian homeworld and end the war once and for all. But when the mission goes catastrophically awry, Shepard finds herself stranded in hell: a planet covered in the wrecks of a thousand starships; a planet that orbits a black hole. A planet hiding a threat far more ancient, and far more dangerous, than the turians.
And she’s not alone.
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It had been a long mission so far. With the Murder of Kohoku, Toombs resurfacing, the Thorian and now Liara had seen her thoughts about Kaidan. This could not end wll, could it?
“You need to let him know, Commander.”
“Let who know?” Diablo feigned ignorance.
“The Lieutenant. You love him. It’s in the very fiber of your being.” Liara said so low so that only Diablo could hear.Series
- Part 4 of Diablo Shepard Stories
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Rose Shepard knows two things for sure. One: Her twin brother, Derrick, is dead. Two: She was sold into a child trafficking ring at age 7, and no one gets out once they've been in as long as she has.
Then help comes from a surprising source, and she finds out that she doesn't know anything. -
The Fourth Galactic Power by TheRealBONKer
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Spore (Video Game)
18 Jan 2025
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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 and oblivious to the existence and power of Mass Relays. What will happen if a civilization so different from others in almost every way, joins the Galactic community?
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Reap what you sow by wanderingthevoid
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Jan 2025
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Asteria Shepard knew how to get the job done, albeit with the occasional explosion. She survived 18 years on the streets of Earth's megacity, a thresher maw, being spaced, the list went on. So when it came down to the wire with what to do with the reapers, she had only one thought: it's finally over. That is, until she wakes up after the battle for Earth in what seems to be the middle ages, surrounded by primatives. This must be what Javik felt, no wonder he was so damn grumpy.
A story of how Shepard went from savior of the Citadel to savior of Thedas.
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Commander Eden Shepard has never felt in control of her life. Events past and present have scarred her more than she'd like to admit. Her background as a ruthless vanguard has somehow earmarked her for a life-changing promotion. But when the past comes knocking, when the hour of reckoning finally comes, Shepard must choose: will she finally fulfill a promise she made to her family long ago, or will she let love heal the deep wounds she's neglected? Explore Shepard's dark past and watch from both hers and Garrus' points of view as our favourite commander fights not just for her galaxy, but for her freedom as well.
May 2025 update: One day I'll finish this thing, don't worry.