Intro. MASS EFFECT
PART I — EDEN PRIME
Space is silent.
But it is never empty.
The year is 2183. Humanity is young on the galactic stage — ambitious, proud, still proving it belongs. The Citadel watches. The turians remember first contact. The asari calculate. The salarians observe.
And somewhere beyond the edges of mapped space…
Something older than civilization stirs.
The Normandy SR-1 cuts through the black like a blade.
A prototype stealth frigate. State-of-the-art. A symbol of humanity’s arrival.
Onboard stands Commander Shepard — Systems Alliance Navy. N7. Soldier. The best humanity has.
She doesn’t know it yet… but this mission will change the course of every species in the galaxy.
EDEN PRIME
A human colony world.
A routine retrieval operation.
A Prothean beacon has been uncovered — technology from a species that vanished fifty thousand years ago.
The Council wants answers.
Humanity wants leverage.
Shepard just wants a clean mission.
But the first thing she sees when the shuttle touche