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“Year ’57, post relay incident over a stretch of dead space just outside a high-density asteroid belt. Doctors studied the case of a sole survivor discovered in the wreckage of a turian spacecraft.”
“Reports say the soldier had spent precisely 82 days floating through orbit. With no radio contact. No comms. Severely wounded from a head on collision with an enemy fleet. The turian had resisted all initial attempts at extraction. According to the soldier there had been another survivor onboard after the initial crash. A crew member of the enemy’s ship..."
"...A human.”
An AU on why Saren hate's humans so much. What if that feeling had once been something else entirely?
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- Part 3 of Scorpio
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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 Swift and the Chosen by Gonk2020
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Gundam & Related Fandoms, Universal Century Gundam, 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime), 機動戦士ガンダム 鉄血のオルフェンズ | Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Transformers - All Media Types, The Expanse (TV)
15 Jun 2025
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Shepard is many things, a Soldier of the Systems Alliance, a Spacer, a Witch and things she would rather keep quiet.
Rodimus of Nyon is also many things. Autobot, Captain, the fastest racer outside Velocitron and plenty of other things he would love to tell everyone about.but when a strange ship attacks a colony and threatens to ignite tensions across the galaxy and begin the bloodiest war in three centuries, these two people with very differant views of the world and ways of doing things are going to have to fight through monsters, Mobile Suits, Decepticons and the secrets of their own pasts in order to stop the galaxy falling into chaos.
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embrace eternity/ash to dust/for the planets move with you by eatenpickelsticks
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Jun 2025
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Kin-slayer. Ash-child.
Kruva did not choose to be born again, especially as an alien. It took a while to realize where and how she was. By the time she did, the fact that she was living in some reality that had been merely fiction became a distant memory. There is only one thing she knows for certain: that the reapers are coming, and she refuses for it to take her family down with her. Because even though she was asari, it did not change the fact that her other mother was krogan, and nothing was going to stop her from doing whatever she could to protect the people she loved the most.
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- Part 12 of I Need Therapy
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An alternate telling of the events of Mass Effect 1, in which Nihlus doesn't die on Eden Prime, and instead gets to help stop Saren, Sovereign, and the Reaper Invasion. This is Part 1, which will largely follow canon but with new characters and scenes. (Part 2 will completely diverge from canon, but we'll get into that later!)
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Commander Shepard, The Greatest to Ever Live by Samael61
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
12 Jun 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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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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These Scars Run Deep by CellPhish
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Jun 2025
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When the fate of existence falls, unwillingly, on your shoulders, you either bear the weight or get crushed underneath it.
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With the others away, Garrus is there to take care of Shepard when she wakes up sick. Who ever said keeping a renegade on bed rest was easy?
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- Part 4 of Scorpio
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The Citadel of Dreams by KSMoss
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Jun 2025
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AU. First Contact War. The galaxy where Shepard never enlists, and Vakarian remains a faithful Hierarchy officer.
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"In the quiet moments between battles, he would catch himself going into those forbidden if-onlys. If only they hadn't been on opposite sides of a conflict that seemed to grow more insurmountable with each passing year. If only he could forget the feel of her skin, the sound of her laughter, the way her eyes would light up when she spoke about her blue skies.
But he couldn't forget, just as he could never see her again. He had no choice but to press on, because that's what a good turian would do. And he clung to the hope that somehow, someday, he might find his way back to that turian…"
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This is Part 2 of the Violet Oceans series. It features a lighter tone and more familiar setting—expect hurt/comfort, drama, political intrigue, action sequences, and occasional smut. Fan-favorite villains and beloved characters from the canon will be tagged as they appear.Series
- Part 2 of Violet Oceans and Blue Skies
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Zero Parallax by Sky1anders
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Destiny (Video Games)
05 Jun 2025
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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. More worlds followed, their surfaces scorched into glass. The attackers called themselves the Covenant. Their message was simple: humanity was a sin to be purged.
At first, the Council saw the war as a fringe conflict. But reports of new species, shattered colonies, and desperate resistance changed that. The Frontiers were not just human. They were home to Eliksni, Awoken, Omnics, and others—diverse peoples fighting and dying together.
Harvest’s destruction forced a decision. The Council acted. Turian warships deployed. Asari commandos landed. Salarian saboteurs struck Covenant supply lines. Even the Elcor and Volus volunteered to stand beside Earth’s defenders.
The war would not end there. But something new began—a united stand across species, governments, and ideals. In fire and ruin, the Citadel met the future.
And the galaxy changed forever.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect Zenith AU
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Shadows Serenade by ARandomWrites
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
05 Jun 2025
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The stability of the galaxy has been disrupted as the newest species to join the space-faring races- humans. Welcomed by many, reviled by others. With their position threatened by human ambition, resilience, and determination; factions within the galactic community have formed a ruthless cabal that means to deal with the upstart humans. Forces that would go to any lengths to ensure their domination of humanity and anyone else that would stand in their way. War is coming and a small clandestine unit is set to uncover the truth and fight from the shadows.
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- Part 1 of Edge of the Sky: Mass Effect AU
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Commander Alison Jane (AJ) Shepard has lived through more than most: the batarian raid on Mindoir, the slaughter on Akuze, and the ruthless campaign at Torfan. Now, as the galaxy teeters on the edge of annihilation, she faces not only the Reapers but the weight of her past and the choices that threaten to unmake her. This story is a novelization of Mass Effect, following Shepard’s journey through familiar missions, dialogue, and relationships as seen in the game.
As the weight of her decisions threatens to crush her, Shepard is forced to confront the pieces of herself she thought she’d buried. When she finds a shy, innocent, asari maiden trapped in a stasis bubble surrounded by prothean ruins, she finds herself opening up to someone. Balancing the tension of galactic war with fleeting moments of tenderness, Shepard must navigate the fine line between duty and desire, her past and her future. Along the way, old wounds resurface, friendships deepen, and love grows in the unlikeliest of places. But even in the darkest moments, there’s room for humor, hope, and the stubborn defiance that makes Shepard who she is. It is a story of survival, healing, and the relationships that keep us fighting—against all odds.
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Test Subject 47-R / Codename: Rose by Hunttijuntti
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
03 Jun 2025
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She was only nine years old when she was taken. Over 160 years later, she wakes up on an operating table—terrified, mutated, and more powerful than anyone imagined. Her instincts unleash a storm of biotics and Force lightning that levels an entire research facility.
Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy find a lone, frightened child among the ruins. She doesn’t know what she is. She doesn’t know what’s been done to her.
But Shepard makes a choice: to protect her, to raise her.
And slowly, the girl known only as Rose will discover that she might be the key to the galaxy’s survival.Series
- Part 1 of Mass star effect wars
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Sent on a seemingly innocuous mission to Eden Prime, things quickly become anything other than normal. Shepard... adjusts.
Novelization of ME1.
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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.
Humanity has changed—and it remembers. -
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Mass effect 3's Omega DLC had a class prompt. As an Engineer, you could bypass a moral dilemma. I feel like it was quite the missed opportunity to not have more class prompts in the series so I'm just gonna fill in a bit.
Renegade female Shepard as the Sentinel class gives the best way to utilize both biotic and engineering prompts.
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- Part 1 of Audentes Fortuna Iuvat
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- English
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Right Hand of The Council by StumbledUponByAksident
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 May 2025
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In the year 2182 two rival Spectre candidates - Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian - are sent to retrieve Prothean beacon discovered on Eden Prime. Instead, they accidentally find real, living Prothean who warns the Council about the Reapers - immortal race of sentient starships waiting in dark space. And they don't dismiss that claim.
As the Prothean takes the seat on the Council that was supposed to go to either humans or turians, balance of political power in the galaxy becomes very upset. Just as Shepard and Garrus' superiors who give up on them both.
Seeing a chance to redeem themselves and put their careers back on track, they join the effort against the Reapers - Shepard using resources from the mysterius group called Cerberus and Garrus under Saren Arterius' wings. -
The Everlasting Republic by Nax2056
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
24 May 2025
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Liara T'Soni is the princess of the Asari Republic, the most powerful empire in the galaxy. All heed the call of the three Chancellors at the heart of the powerful empire. Yet her heart only yearns for a world outside.
Garrus Vakarian is a man on the run, with only himself and his kid sister left. When a universe calls in need from the evils of fascism an Archangel heeds the call.
Tali'Zorah is the first of her people to go out on a pilgrimage in many years, so she brings along the last Geth to protect her in the universe.
Jane Shepard is a free human renegade, one of only a handful she knows. Part of the elite Spectre rebel cell, when her life is pulled into the centre of a galaxy wide conflict that will bridge four lives together in a final war.
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Commander Leonie Shepard was sent to recover a Prothean artifact on Eden Prime. Instead of a beacon, she finds something... different. Something that threatens to redefine her whole being.
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What if Commander Shepard touched the memory shard?
***SOMEWHAT RESURRECTED***