Mass Effect category

Human

40 entries tagged Human, 40 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Commander Shepard and The Illusive Man.

Alec Ryder: the first human Pathfinder in Mass Effect: AndromedaAlec Ryder was an N7 veteran, AI researcher and the human Pathfinder of the Andromeda Initiative. He built SAM, brought his twins to Andromeda, and died on Habitat 7 in 2819, passing the role to one of them.
Donovan Hock: the arms dealer who stole Keiji Okuda's memoriesDonovan Hock was a weapons dealer and art collector on Bekenstein who murdered Kasumi Goto's partner and ripped the graybox out of his skull. He kept it in a vault with Michelangelo's David and the head of the Statue of Liberty.
Elysium: the colony attacked in the Skyllian Blitz of 2176Elysium was humanity's oldest colony in the Skyllian Verge, founded in 2160 in the Vetus system with 8.3 million people by the game's present. In 2176 a pirate and mercenary force under Elanos Haliat attacked it and was thrown off.
Gavin Archer: the Cerberus scientist who wired his brother into a VIDr Gavin Archer ran Project Overlord at the Cerberus facility on Aite and forced his autistic brother David into a merger with a virtual intelligence to keep the project funded. What becomes of both brothers is the player's doing.
Lord Darius: the human warlord Hackett wanted killed on NonuelLord Darius was a human warlord holding an element zero site on Nonuel in the Plutus system, extorting the Systems Alliance that had armed him. Admiral Hackett sent Shepard to negotiate and expected the Commander to shoot him.
Shanxi: the only human colony ever occupied by an alien raceShanxi sits by the Shanxi-Theta mass relay and was the ground the First Contact War of 2157 was fought over. The turians besieged it, starved its garrison into surrender, and were thrown off it by Admiral Drescher's Second Fleet.
The Clone: Cerberus's copy of Commander ShepardA Cerberus-made duplicate of Commander Shepard, grown to supply spare organs for the Lazarus Project and stolen from the organization by the rogue agent Rasa. Awakened in 2186, it conspired with Maya Brooks to murder the original, steal the Commander's identity, and hijack the Normandy SR-2.
Amanda Kenson: Scientist of the Bahak SystemDoctor Amanda Kenson was a human scientist whose research suggested the mass relays predated the Protheans. Investigating evidence of an imminent Reaper invasion in a batarian system, she was indoctrinated by a Reaper artifact and turned against the very Commander Shepard sent to rescue her.
Armando-Owen BaileyArmando-Owen Bailey was a human officer of Citadel Security stationed in the Zakera Ward, a no-nonsense lawman who rose from a neglected beat officer to a Commander overseeing security for the Citadel Embassies during the Reaper War.
Ashley WilliamsAshley Williams was a human Systems Alliance soldier and the sole survivor of her unit on Eden Prime, who went on to serve aboard the Normandy under Commander Shepard and later rose to become one of the first human Spectres.
Chloe Michel: Citadel PhysicianDr. Chloe Michel was a human physician who ran a medical clinic in the Upper Wards of the Citadel. Drawn into the hunt for Saren after treating a fugitive quarian, she crossed paths with Commander Shepard and later served the war effort against the Reapers.
Commander ShepardCommander Shepard was a Systems Alliance N7 marine who became the first human Spectre, exposed the rogue agent Saren Arterius, and led the galaxy's resistance against the Reapers. Shepard's gender, history, and many of the choices that shaped the war were never fixed, and the final fate of the cycle turned on the Commander's own decisions.
Conrad VernerConrad Verner was an enthusiastic, self-proclaimed admirer of Commander Shepard whose hapless attempts to follow in the Commander's footsteps recurred across the galaxy, from the Citadel to Illium and back again.
Cora Harper: Asari-Trained Vanguard of the Andromeda InitiativeCora Harper was a human biotic and former asari commando who served as the Pathfinder team's second in command aboard the Tempest. Trained among the asari huntresses of Talein's Daughters, she brought elite biotic skill and rigid discipline to the Andromeda Initiative's expedition into the Heleus Cluster.
David AndersonDavid Anderson was a decorated Systems Alliance officer, the first captain of the Normandy, and a mentor to Commander Shepard. When the Reapers invaded Earth, he stayed behind to lead its resistance, and he stood at Shepard's side in the final hours of the war.
Diana Allers: Alliance War CorrespondentDiana Allers was a human war correspondent for the Alliance News Network and a regular presence on its program Battlespace. Originally from the colony of Bekenstein, she sought to report the war against the Reapers from the front lines and could embed aboard the Normandy to chronicle the conflict firsthand.
Donnel UdinaDonnel Udina was humanity's ambassador to the Citadel Council and, in some accounts, its first Councilor. A cautious political operator obsessed with human advancement, he ended his career as a traitor in a Cerberus coup.
First Contact WarThe First Contact War, known to the turians as the Relay 314 Incident, was a brief, low-intensity conflict between the human Systems Alliance and the Turian Hierarchy in 2157 CE. It began when turians fired on human ships reactivating a dormant mass relay, escalated into the occupation and liberation of the colony Shanxi, and ended with Council mediation that revealed the wider galaxy to humanity.
Greg Adams: Normandy Chief EngineerGregory Adams was a Systems Alliance engineer hand-picked to serve as chief engineer of the Normandy. Calm, even-tempered, and a firm believer in the rights of synthetic life, he kept the ship's drive core running through two of its incarnations and the war against the Reapers.
HumansHumans were the newest sentient species of note to enter galactic affairs, and also the most rapidly expanding. After discovering a Prothean data cache on Mars and unlocking the mass relay network, they rose within decades from isolated newcomers to a power whose ambition and military strength unsettled the older Council races.
The Illusive ManThe Illusive Man was the secretive, well-informed leader of Cerberus, a human whose true identity as Jack Harper was forgotten by most. For decades he bent his vast network and resources toward a single goal, the ascension of humanity, before his obsession with controlling the Reapers led to his downfall.
JackJack, known to Cerberus as Subject Zero, was among the most powerful human biotics alive, forged by years of brutal experimentation she answered with a violent and bloody life. Recruited by Commander Shepard, she sought closure at the facility that had made her and later found purpose teaching young biotics.
Jacob TaylorJacob Taylor was a human biotic and former Alliance Marine who became the armory officer of the Normandy SR-2, serving as a steady voice of reason during Commander Shepard's mission against the Collectors. Disillusioned with both the Alliance and Cerberus, he eventually broke with the pro-human group to fight the Reapers on his own terms.
James VegaLieutenant James Vega was a hardened Systems Alliance marine who joined Commander Shepard's crew during the Reaper War, a brave soldier haunted by a costly command decision who came to see Shepard as both mentor and role model.
Jeff "Joker" MoreauJeff "Joker" Moreau was the Flight Lieutenant and helmsman of both the SSV Normandy and the Normandy SR-2, a brilliant pilot whose brittle bones never kept him from the cockpit. He flew Commander Shepard through every campaign of the Reaper War and formed a close bond with the ship's artificial intelligence.
Kahlee SandersKahlee Sanders was a human Systems Alliance officer counted among its finest computer specialists and a recognized authority on synthetic intelligence. The daughter of Admiral Jon Grissom, she was drawn repeatedly into events surrounding rogue AI research, Cerberus, and the Reaper threat, and she devoted much of her life to the children of the Ascension Project.
Kai LengKai Leng was the Illusive Man's most trusted assassin, a cybernetically enhanced former Alliance marine turned Cerberus operative. He hunted Commander Shepard across the Reaper War before dying at the Commander's hand.
Kaidan AlenkoKaidan Alenko was a human biotic and Systems Alliance marine who served aboard the Normandy under Commander Shepard, carried the burden of the experimental L2 implants of his youth, and rose during the Reaper War to command an elite biotic unit.
Karin ChakwasDr. Karin Chakwas was the human physician of the Normandy across both of its incarnations, a calm and devoted Alliance major who stayed at her post out of loyalty to the soldiers she treated. She regarded the crew as her family and counted Commander Shepard and the pilot Joker among the truest friends she ever had.
Kasumi GotoKasumi Goto was the galaxy's most enigmatic master thief, a peerless infiltrator and stealth expert whose face few of her many enemies could ever name. Driven by the murder of her partner and the recovery of his stolen memories, she lent her talents to Commander Shepard's mission against the Collectors.
Kelly ChambersKelly Chambers was the yeoman aboard the Normandy SR-2 during the Collector crisis, a Cerberus recruit and trained psychologist who monitored the crew's morale and whose conscience eventually drove her from the organization.
Khalisah al-Jilani: Westerlund News ReporterKhalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani was a human reporter for Westerlund News known for confrontational, agenda-driven interviews. She repeatedly sought out Commander Shepard on the Citadel, pressing hostile questions in the name of human independence.
Maya BrooksMaya Brooks was a former Cerberus operative and master of infiltration who worked under a long string of aliases. She compiled the dossiers for Commander Shepard's gravest missions before turning against Cerberus and the Commander alike.
Oleg PetrovskyOleg Petrovsky was a Cerberus general regarded as a formidable military strategist and a classical scholar of war. A veteran of the First Contact War who came to side with Cerberus over the Alliance, he led the conquest of Omega and its later defense against Aria T'Loak's bid to reclaim the station.
Samantha TraynorSpecialist Samantha Traynor was the communications specialist aboard the Alliance retrofit of the Normandy SR-2 during the Reaper War, a brilliant technician whose analytical mind repeatedly turned signal traffic into decisive leads for Commander Shepard.
Skyllian BlitzThe Skyllian Blitz was a massed pirate and slaver assault on the human colony of Elysium in 2176 CE, partly funded by batarian financiers in reprisal for human expansion into the Skyllian Verge. The colony's defenders held off the attackers until Alliance reinforcements arrived, and the Blitz later prompted a major Alliance offensive against batarian pirate bases on Torfan.
Steve CortezLieutenant Steve Cortez was the Alliance pilot who flew the Normandy SR-2's Kodiak shuttle during the Reaper War, ferrying Commander Shepard's squad into battle while carrying the grief of a husband lost to the Collectors.
Steven HackettSteven Hackett was a top-ranking admiral of the Systems Alliance Navy who rose from enlisted man to commander of the Fifth Fleet. He helped make Commander Shepard the first human Spectre and led the assembled fleets in the final battle against the Reapers.
Suvi Anwar: Science Officer of the TempestDr. Suvi Anwar was a member of the Nexus science team and the science officer of the scout ship Tempest during the Andromeda Initiative's settlement of the Heleus Cluster. Holding advanced degrees in astrophysics and molecular biology, she was at once a woman of science and a woman of faith.
Zaeed MassaniZaeed Massani was one of the most feared bounty hunters and mercenary soldiers in the galaxy, a co-founder of the Blue Suns who survived a point-blank betrayal and spent decades rebuilding his name. Hired by Cerberus to aid Commander Shepard, he carried a long grudge and an even longer rifle into the war against the Reapers.