Commander Shepard

Lieutenant Commander Shepard is the human protagonist of Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3, whose gender, appearance, skills and pre-service history are all customizable and have an impact on the story. Shepard's first name is also customizable, but is never stated in-game. The default pre-made Shepard is a male Soldier named John, with the Earthborn/Sole Survivor profile. Shepard was born on April 11, 2154, is a graduate of the Systems Alliance N7 special forces program (service no. 5923-AC-2826), and is initially assigned to the SSV Normandy as Executive Officer. Shepard later becomes the first human to join the Spectres, an elite special task force for the Citadel Council in order to track down another membr of the organization gone rogue- a turian terrorist named Saren. Saren commanded an army of synthetics, called the Geth, and funded multiple projects to cure the krogan genophage in order to turn the species into a glorified slave race. Shepard was forced to quickly build a team to stop Saren's forces throughout the galaxy- stopping the mind-control of the Thorian on the Feros colony, rescuing Liara T'Soni from the Geth in the Artimis Tau Cluster and stopping her mother and Saren's right-hand woman Matriarch Benezia on Noveria. Shepard discovered that Saren was only a puppet of an ancient genocidal machine-race known as the Reapers. The vanguard of the Reapers, Soverign, was pretending to be Saren's ship as he indoctrinated the turian and planned to bring about his fellow Reapers, but his plans were stopped by Shepard, who's actions resulted in the deaths of both Soverign and Saren.

After that, Shepard was ambushed by the Collectors, who destroyed his original ship, the Normandy, and killed him- forcing the pro-human terrorist organization Cerberus to bring him back to life using the Lazarus Project. Leading a Cerberus-funded suicide mission, Shepard put together an elite strike force to cross through the Omega-4 Relay, an act no ship had ever returned from, to destory the Collector Base and stop the Reapers once again- an act the Commander succeeded in. When the Reapers threatened to once more invade the galaxy, Shepard was able to slow them down substantially by ramming a massive asteroid into the Alpha Mass Relay they were going to use- at the cost of 300,000 innocent lives. When the Reapers did manage to begin their invasion, Shepard was forced to abandon Earth to assemble all the races and factions in the galaxy under a single banner before leading them on an assault to stop the Reaper threat once and for all.

The Battle With Marcus Fenix
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