Virmire

Ashley Williams

Ashley 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.

Blasto: The First Hanar Spectre

Blasto was a fictional action hero who starred in a long run of popular films across the galaxy, billed as the Milky Way's first hanar Spectre. A gun-toting jellyfish with a lover in every port, he became a cultural fixture whose movies ran from the 2180s into the era of the Andromeda settlements.

Commander Shepard

Commander 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.

Donnel Udina

Donnel 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.

Genophage

The genophage was a genetic weapon deployed against the krogan during the Krogan Rebellions, drastically lowering the chance of viable births and consigning the species to a slow decline. Developed by the salarians and unleashed by the turians, it haunted galactic politics for over a thousand years.

Geth

The geth were a race of networked artificial intelligences built by the quarians as laborers. When they gained sentience and questioned their makers, the quarians tried to exterminate them; the geth won the resulting Morning War and withdrew behind the Perseus Veil to build their own future.

Geth Prime

Geth Primes were the largest and most powerful geth infantry platforms, heavy units that served as command and control nodes on the battlefield. Sheathed in armor and heavy shielding, a Prime carried a punishing pulse weapon and a combat intelligence that sharpened the fire of every geth around it.

Ilos

Ilos was a ruined Prothean colony hidden behind the secret Mu Relay, home to the Conduit and the buried truth of the Reaper cycle, reached by Commander Shepard in the race to stop Saren Arterius.

Indoctrination

Indoctrination was the mind-altering effect that Reapers and their technology exerted on organic beings. Through a subtle signal or field, the Reapers eroded a victim's will until only an obedient slave remained, turning influential individuals into the instruments of the galaxy's own destruction.

James Vega

Lieutenant 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" Moreau

Jeff "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.

Kaidan Alenko

Kaidan 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.