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Zero Parallax by Sky1anders
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Destiny (Video Games)
29 Oct 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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His legs were still aching from therapy, from walking, but the pain was grounding. The galaxy finally started to shift back in place. Two years of ghosts, of pain, and finally—here. In the pilot seat of the new ship. The fact that they were technically under the command of a terrorist organization? With Shepard back—figures.
But Joker isn’t just watching anymore. He is reclaiming his life, piece by piece, wondering if he can stop Shepard before she tears herself down.
ME2 with minor (so far) canon divergence, hooked into the original Karpyshyn's story.
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- Part 3 of Glass bones, thick skin
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held together by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Oct 2025
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“Have you thought about what happens when this is done? In the version where it all goes right, where the Crucible works and the Reapers are no more.” The strain in Evy’s voice is palpable, the desperate edge that borders on despair.
Thessia fell.
Thessia fell, and Evy doesn't even have anything to show for it. She failed.
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the previous entries in this series aren't required, this can be read independently
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- Part 3 of Commander Evy Shepard
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Mass Effect: Book II - The Cerberus Chronicles by JShepLord
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
21 Oct 2025
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After waking up in a Cerberus space station, Shepard demands answers and finds out that she had died two years prior with the destruction of the Normandy. With two years of her absence, how will the galaxy react to her returning, and how will she react to what the galaxy has become?
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- Part 3 of Mass Effect Chronicles
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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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An Unwritten Galaxy by AsterHowl
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Oct 2025
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Liara never becomes an information broker. Tali never returns to the Flotilla. Garrus never leaves C-Sec. Wrex never returns to Tuchanka. Joker never leaves the Alliance. Ashley never recovers from survivor's guilt.
Jack never escapes Cerberus. Miranda never escapes her father. Jacob never leaves the Corsairs. Mordin never works on the modified genophage. Samara never settles down. Thane never abandons his son. Zaeed never stands up to Vido Santiago. Kasumi never crosses Donovan Hock. Grunt never receives the mental imprint. Legion is never assigned to find Shepard.
The galaxy is a cold, cruel place. Much more than Commander Shepard ever knew.
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Humanity found out that it was not alone in the galaxy. It had earned its place in the galactic community, and made it its goal to strive for unity and prosperity. But the barrier between galaxies is fickle, and mankind will find itself staring down its counterpart. The Citadel Council comes face-to-face with the remnants of the Human Domain and the Persean Sector at large.
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Years after the Reaper War, a grieving Kaidan comes into possession of the files Shepard left for him.
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Vendetta by SomethingProfound
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Oct 2025
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Total war demands victory at any cost.
After the destruction of the Bahak System, Emilia Shepard returns home just in time for the Reaper invasion. The galaxy finds itself in a race against time: win the war before there's no one left to fight.
ME3, canon-divergent with a focus on milscifi and off-screen moments, multiple POVs, paragade Shepard.
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- Part 9 of A Sea of Stars
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at the end of the day by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Oct 2025
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E. Shepard: EDI, create new message.
EDI: Commander Shepard, new message created. Who are you sending it to?
E. Shepard: Kaidan—Commander Alenko, Alliance Military.
EDI: Recipient added. Awaiting recording.
E.Shepard: Start message.
Kaidan, I—
I’m alive. It’s… complicated.
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A series of messages, log recordings, and personal musings fitting into and around the ME2 canon.
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- Part 1 of Commander Evy Shepard
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Mass Effect 4: What Comes After (Not Andromeda) by laurawho7
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect
06 Oct 2025
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Everyone knows how the war ended.
This is what happened after—
When Shepard fell.
When Liara stayed.
And when love, not victory, became the most important fight of all.But recovery doesn’t come easy. Not for the galaxy, and not for Shepard.
As new threats emerge from the ashes and entire worlds cry out for help, she must decide who she is without the war—and what kind of future she’s willing to build.For herself.
For Liara.
And for everything worth saving.Series
- Part 4 of Mass Effect
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These are the dossiers of MY characters for Mass Effect
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,055
- Chapters:
- 21/?
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- 64
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Shepard's fixation on non-human holidays had started a few weeks prior, when she barged in on Mordin on the comm, bowing out of holiday plans with some distant relative. Shepard had decided that in the interest of crew cohesion, the pro-human terrorist group crew members should all participate in a salarian celebration which mainly involved holding hands in a circle and humming.
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Shepard thought following in their family's footsteps would have been simple, but after Akuze they realize how wrong they were. Now faced with an even bigger threat, Shepard's going to need a team. Things are lonely in space, time is short, distractions abound, can they save the universe when the universe refuses to see the truth?
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 594
- Chapters:
- 2/?
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Concealment by SkyAboveEarthBelow
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Sep 2025
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Nobody knows who Commander Shepherd is. Not even her crew who she keeps at an arms length, not even her squad who see her daily. Only herself
Dr Liara T'Soni is used to uncovering mysteries and tries to understand what or how the Protheans chose her to warn the galaxy of their extinction.
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- Part 1 of Hidden in the relay
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 697
- Chapters:
- 1/?
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“So, have you heard about our new XO?” Jenkins poked his head from the corridor, eyes wide with excitement. “The Torfan Bitch herself.”
Joker doesn't know yet, how the 'Alliance xenophobic poster child' would turn his world upside down and, god, he is here for the ride, even if he can only sit in the cockpit and react.
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- Part 1 of Glass bones, thick skin
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Part 2 of the Across the Stars Series:
Two years ago Commander Leila Shepard died. Now she must grapple with the shock of not only remembering her death, but suddenly being thrust into yet another urgent mission to save the galaxy.
Garrus Vakarian, having spent the years coming to terms with the loss of his best friend, now faces a renewed wave of grief as she unexpectedly reenters his life. Seeing her again throws his already crumbling life into disarray as feelings he had attempted to tamp down are brought to the surface.
Despite their individual struggles, Garrus and Shepard are forced to rely on each other to survive. And if they’re going up against insurmountable odds, they might as well face them side by side.
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Story extends through the events of Mass Effect 2 and six months beyond. Heavily focused on all the little moments in between missions. Mostly canon compliant (until it’s not), but with extra feelings. This story will NOT always follow the canon order of events.
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- Part 3 of Across the Stars
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First Contact - A Mass Effect Origin by Jaymiddle
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Sep 2025
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Adrift in the far reaches of the Skyllian Verge, executive officer David Anderson of the christened Alliance vessel known as the SSV Hastings - receives an alert originating from a small, human settlement on the peaceful farming world of Mindoir. Little does he know, that David is about to uncover humanity's - if not, the galaxy's greatest solider and symbol of hope from within the ruins of a scoured town.
This is the origin of Jason Shepard.
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“This mission just got a lot more complicated.” by Al_ce
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, mass - Fandom
07 Sep 2025
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Covers the story-line of Mass Effect one, using my Jayne Shepard character's play through. Includes additional background and personal origin story that I have in my head for my character. Slight deviance from the original story here and there.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 36,300
- Chapters:
- 5/?
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The excitement after defeating the reapers had come and gone, as fast as a humming bird. Shepard would tell Garrus that a humming bird was her favorite earth animal, though he had nothing to compare it to. Metallic, Grey Palaven, where even the animals were covered in plates and spikes.
Shepard was in a far worse state, half her body burned, mostly her arms, with tiny little cuts and pieces of metal inside. The scouts that Garrus had been ordered to take and find Shepard the second he had medigel smeared on his own injuries. [He actually begged to go out and find her. A turian begging to find a human. Spirits. He was over the moons for her.]
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The starchild is full of shit and the creators CONFIRMED garrus would dig FemShep out.