With an unknown threat looming on the horizon, the crew of the Normandy band together on a mission that tests the limits of their endurability. Yet even in the midst of a mission gone awry, sometimes people find what they weren't even looking for. ME1, Shenko.

What if Mindoir was never hit by batarian slavers? Shepard never joined the Alliance and instead pursued her original dream - the one that would have been destroyed with her family. Years later she finds herself contracting with the Alliance on the retrofit project for the Normandy SR2 when the Reapers hit earth. AU Shepard.