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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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Shepard has never been one to sit around and wait for others to figure it out. She’s always preferred her own boots on the ground, no matter how many waves of husks, or Collectors, or goddamned Reapers might stand in her way. She doesn’t like this. She wouldn’t like it if any other ship was missing, and she certainly doesn’t like it now.
How could she ever trust anyone else to find the Normandy? To turn every stone? Earmark every page?
When Shepard wakes up after everything, Garrus isn't there. And with the Normandy currently missing without a trace, neither is anyone else.
Alone, injured, and stuck in a small hospital on Earth, all she can do is wait for progress to come.
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Lieutenant Jenna Shepard and her squad are tasked with investigating the sudden disappearance of the colony on Akuze. No one could have predicted that the forces of nature would work against them.
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- Part 1 of Commander Jenna Shepard
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Scars & Silk by FazedMuttley
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Jun 2025
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Zoey Shepard was built for war. Not for nobility. Not for family.
Raised by the Alliance, forged in battle, she’s only ever known orders, discipline, and loss. Home was never part of the equation. After surviving Elysium she’s thrust into a world she doesn’t understand—in the last place she ever expected.
Thessia is a world of refinement, politics, and power—a battlefield where wars are fought with words as often as weapons. Here, Zoey is no longer just a soldier. She’s a noble. A daughter. A piece in a game she doesn’t know how to play.
There are whispers of secrets buried deep, truths about who she is and what was done to her—truths that could shake not just Zoey, but House T’Soni itself.
And Zoey?
She doesn’t know it yet, but old ghosts don’t stay buried, they don’t just haunt. Some come hunting.
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Shepard knew that first shakedown run on the Normandy felt like it was going to be more than she'd signed up for, but when she finds herself encountering an ancient alien relic and barely saving her prospective Spectre mentor from a deadly betrayal, how will the course of her future change?
This is my Mass Effect: What If?
What if Nihlus survived Eden Prime? What would change? At first, it might not seem like much at all...
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect: What If?
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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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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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A "Mass Effect" fic.
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Eternal Embers (Book Three) by SpaceVixen
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Jun 2025
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Three Months after the events of From The Ashes.
Major Kaidan Alenko and Faith Shepard prepare for the biggest day of their lives, but a new faction threatens to rise up and finish what the Reapers failed to start.
I recommend reading both Phoenix Rising (Book One) and From The Ashes (Book Two) before reading this instalment.
***Complete***
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The Reapers have begun their cycle of extinction upon a galaxy unprepared for them. The fate of Earth, and all life, rests in the hands of one man. Shepard must unite everyone to create a galactic armada to fight a war unprecedented in scale against a foe that has never been beaten. However, the Illusive Man, and his rogue organization, Cerberus, have other goals in mind...
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Mass Effect. A story of Drell. by The_Writerz_Bloque
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 Jun 2025
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Herein lie the tales of all drell influencing the Mass Effect Drellverse with rewritten concepts and richly-developed personalities. This set of stories entails the species’ massive relationship with Rakhana and other species not found in the original Mass Effect universe. It takes place before and during and after the Reaper War of 2183—for the true beginnings of that war were further in the past as the cycle it was of harvests. We will learn of the origins of the Reaper technology as having come from Rakhana and its system of secret worlds. About the planet exist ten unique worlds named Farhala, Lthus, Talwen, Aos, Dramath, Telrth, Razinn, Haltya, Brelona. Each world was created at the dawn of time and holds its own variety of species—all known as Banton and under this kingdom of organic creatures and intelligent life forms…Not a one is invited to the Council to be represented as a species to the united galaxial species known in text and educated circles from salarian, krogan, asari, batarian, human, hanar, volus, elcor, vorcha, or turian homeworlds…
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- Part 1 of A New Fate
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- English
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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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In early 2183, Scientists on the small European colony of Eden Prime discovered a Prothean artifact of extreme significance. Upon the revelation of it's discovery, the Systems Alliance Treaty Organization sent a small team to secure it, and transport it to the citadel. A routine shakedown. A simple milk run.
They failed.
With the beacon destroyed and Saren Arterius and his Geth allies cutting a swath across the known Galaxy, S.A.T.O. tasks United States Navy Commander John Shepard, first Human Spectre and N7 operative to hunt Saren and his ilk to the ends of the galaxy, and uncover the motives behind these devastating attacks.
In the process, Shepard builds a crack team, uncovers a conspiracy billions of years in the making, and even finds love.
[Takes place in an Alternate Universe, wherein Earth's nations have much more sway, Humanity never discovered Element Zero, and the First Contact War was far more disastrous, ending in a small nuclear exchange, which killed over 2 million people.]
[NO LONGER ON HIATUS]
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Where the Sky is Pink by MbTheHunter
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Supernatural (TV 2005)
11 Jun 2025
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Her war is over. Her sacrifice is made. But what comes after the final battle for a soldier who gave everything?
For Commander Shepard, the end is not a void, but an unexpected return to a time of peace she thought was lost forever. -
Oath of loyalty by etherealend
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
11 Jun 2025
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Loyalty: a notion that had always gravitated around Garrus’ life.
“I am loyal to him, as he is loyal to me. And isn’t this the greatest form of love?” Her mother, as the good turian she was, used to say with regard to Castis.
Loyalty. During childhood, boot camp, military service. Loyalty: a virtue every turian was supposed to possess from birth, to the Hierarchy, first and foremost.
Garrus had always, secretly, disagreed. It was something to be earned.
And with her, such had been.
Commander Shepard had secured his deepest loyalty, and only when he saw her for the last time, before the Normandy SR-1 was taken down, did he understand how right his mother was. -
A Hero Twice Born by RedDeadfan100
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Jun 2025
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Harry never asked for this. After everything—the war, the loss, the battles that had stripped him of nearly everything—he just wanted to rest. To finally be with his parents, Sirius, and Remus in whatever lay beyond death.
But fate had never been kind to him.
Instead of peace, he wakes up in the distant future, reborn as Ben Shepard—the son of Jane Shepard, the infamous Butcher of Torfan, a woman known for her ruthless efficiency and battlefield prowess. Thrown into a life aboard Alliance ships, constantly relocating with his mother’s assignments, Ben finds himself struggling between the echoes of a past life and the reality of his new existence.
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- Part 4 of Harry Potter reincarnations
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Our story takes place after Humanity narrowly avoids destroying itself and despite all odds manages to learn from its mistakes. Being a better, kinder species when they encounter another race in need they pull out all the stops to lend assistance.
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Shattered Flames by AnonymousZeusy
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
09 Jun 2025
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Avalon Freya Shepard, Hero of Elysium and Sole survivor of Akuze is not only the youngest female N7 graduate but also an agent of an underground alliance class called the Valkyries. After learning how to live again, she finds love and purpose. Follow the events of Mass Effect 1 with Avalon and her Brother Aiden as they stop Saren and learn more about the reapers.
This is Part one of the Twin Flames series, There are shorter one-shots in the series but this is the first main part.
I do not own any of the characters- they are a product of Bioware, Thank you for letting us build our own stories in the universe you created.Series
- Part 1 of Twin Flames
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After six long months, Commander Shepard is back aboard the Normandy— alive, reinstated, and trying to pick up the pieces. As the war looms and the galaxy teeters on the edge, Shepard must navigate the tension of old bonds, the weight of command, and the silence that’s grown between her and Liara T’Soni.