The story continues…
Sovereign is defeated. His plans to unleash the full might of the Reapers on the galaxy have been slowed. But not stopped.
If Sovereign, a single reaper, could nearly defeat the combined fleets of all the council races, then what chance do we have against thousands? Commander Shepard has set out to give the galaxy a fighting chance.
Until Commander Shepard is killed. Ambushed and assassinated by a mysterious species of Reaper lackeys, known as The Collectors, Shepard is K-I-A.
That is until a human extremist group, Cerberus, revive Shepard in a miracle procedure called The Lazarus Project, effectively returning Shepard to life, 2 years later. Collectors are abducting entire human colonies, for reasons unknown, The Alliance won’t help, the council disregard the Reapers entirely. Commander Shepard must ally with the once enemy faction, Cerberus, to uncover this ploy of the Reapers.