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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    It’s an information processing problem. He just needs more time.

    This is Joker’s responsibility now. It has to be him. He knows what his job is, and he’s not going to fuck it up again. He can do this.
     
    “All fleets: the Crucible is armed. Disengage and head to the rendezvous point. I repeat: disengage and get the hell out of here!”
     
    He’s not leaving without Shepard.
     
    How could he?

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    A character study on Joker during the last moments of the Reaper War, and the choice he's faced with to leave Shepard behind.

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    09 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    Garrus takes his role watching Shepard's back seriously and refuses to let things end the way they did on Horizon. With a little guilt and a lot of luck, he manages to convince Kaidan to join their hunt for the Collectors. Or Kaidan and Miranda start a game of tug of war and Shepard's the rope

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    09 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 1

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    The Reapers are gone, destroyed by the Crucible. The Normandy is stranded but they won’t always be. They’d get back but what little information they have from the moments before they left the Sol System tells Kaidan that he’s alone again. He knew that it would hurt if he ever lost Shepard and it does. He won’t regret that they had the time together that they did but that isn’t always enough to help bear the pain.

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    08 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 6

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    They call it the Great Filter. Civilizations rise, they discover the miracle of Element Zero, and they unknowingly accelerate the decay of their own suns. The Reapers aren't just destroyers; they are the firebreak, arriving to harvest advanced life before it burns the universe down to the last star.

    For Shepard, the invasion manifests as more than just a war—it is a physical agony. The sky over Earth has turned violet, gravity is unspooling, and his Vanguard abilities are no longer a weapon, but a liability. In an atmosphere thick with dark energy, every Biotic Charge risks tearing a hole in reality and burning him out from the inside.
    Shepard can’t charge his way out of the heat death of the universe.

    Reunited with Kaidan Alenko, Shepard finds that their biotic resonance is the only thing capable of quieting the static screaming in his blood. Together, they must convince a fractured galaxy that the Reapers are merely a symptom of a much larger disease—and find a way to fix the sky before the lights go out forever.

    The Dark Energy Ending rewrite.

    Vanguard!Shepard, Sentinel!Kaidan, Biotic Resonance, Dark Energy Lore, Entropy, and mShenko romance as the center of gravity.

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    08 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    Shepard has a new rank. A new responsibility. A new mission.
    Saren is out there. And they have to stop him before it’s too late.
    But this is not a story about war.

    It’s what unfolds between two orders — in the stillness between missions, in the discipline that holds, in the questions no one is always ready to ask.
    How do you hold, when even the certainties of the galaxy begin to waver?

     

    Each chapter follows the chronological order of the story, but can also be read independently.

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    08 Feb 2026