

You must become the tip of the spear of humanity, for you alone know the full extent of what is at stake if you should fail. Your only imperative is to preserve the safety of civilized life in the galaxy - at any cost. To stop this enemy, you must act without remorse, without hesitation, and outside the limits of the law. As Commander Shepard of the SS Normandy, you will take your elite recon squad across a galaxy in turmoil, in a desperate race to stop the return of an enemy without mercy.

The fight to stop this extinction event has become the most important mission in the galaxy. They leave behind only the scattered ruins of technology, destroying all evidence of their own existence.įew believe this ancient legend. With ruthless efficiency, the machines wipe out all advanced organic civilization. Every 50,000 years, an ancient machine race invades the galaxy. The galaxy is trapped in an endless cycle of extinction.
