Three long years of war, over. Commander Vala Shepard and her team had succeeded in doing what no one else would have dared to try: uniting the Milky Way as one. Millions of lives were lost. Entire planets, systems, civilisations - gone. And at the climax of it all, and life hung on her words, she turned herself over to ensure that everything they had fought for didn't go to waste, in this cycle or the next. On the Normandy, however, the world ceased to exist for Shepard's teammates and the crew. And at the heart of them, Garrus. This not the end, though. This is a new beginning.