Shepard - After several surgeries and a year and a half spent in recovery and physical therapy, Shepard resigns from the Office of Special Tactics and Reconnaissance and returns to duty with the Alliance. He is later promoted to Captain and appointed commanding officer of the rebuilt Interplanetary Combatives Training (a.k.a. N-School or the Villa) at Vila Militar in Rio de Janeiro. He retires from the military on the twenty year anniversary of his enlistment and becomes a high paid security consultant for shipping and mining corporations doing business in sectors of space known for political instability, strife, or piracy. Despite his fame from Elysium and the Reaper War, he shuns all requests for interviews, book, or film deals, and employs a VI to screen all mail and comm requests. Upon his death at the age of 152, the Alliance gives him a state funeral attended by representatives of all Earth's nations as well as the members of the current Citadel Council, and delegations from all the species who fought in the Reaper War. Among them were a few Batarians.
Liara - Spends a decade as the Shadow Broker, using the resources at her disposal to both aid in the rebuilding process for formerly occupied worlds, and to neutralize threats that might seek to take advantage of the war's aftermath. Finally satisfied that she had done as much as she could, Liara turned over the reigns to Feron in what might of been the first peaceful transition of power for the organization in living memory. Following her 'retirement' Liara and Shepard held a quiet and traditional Asari bonding ceremony in the Thessian countryside outside Armali. She returned to the life she thought of as her true calling, and would spend the rest of her days as a scientist and academic. While heading a dig sponsored by the University of Serrice, Liara's team would unearth a significant Inusannon find beneath a Prothean site. In later years her work at this site caused her to became more well known as an expert on late period Inusannon, than for her earlier work with the Protheans. Following Shepard's death she eventually remarried, and by the time she passed at the age of 1173, she had had three bondmates...something not unusual for the extremely long-lived Asari. She was survived by four daughters, the first of which was from her union with Shepard.
Ashley - The relationship with Vega was only a wartime diversion, and did not last. She continued on as both a Spectre and an Alliance officer for many years, and like Shepard eventually retired as a Captain. Her contributions in the Reaper War and as a Spectre, though many of the latter still remain highly classified, finally put the Williams curse to rest. She eventually married a Alliance officer, and their son Kaidan would go on to become the second member of her family to gain a general's star.
Garrus - Following the destruction of the Reapers Garrus returned to Palaven to search for his family, as many of the war's refugees were returning. It was there that he was greeted with the tragic news that his sister had enlisted from an offworld refugee camp, and been killed in action on Irune in the war's final hours. Among her final effects was a holo of Solana and Garrus as children, and a datapad with a draft of an unfinished apology. Garrus resigned as a consultant to the Turian Hierarchy and was hired as head of personal security for the family of Jonah Ashland, of Eldfell-Ashland Energy. During this time he was approached by Ashley Williams with a recruitment pitch from the Office of Special Tactics and Reconnaissance. Ashley joked that she was there to rescue him from the boredom of having to babysit Aishwarya Ashland, to which Garrus quipped, "You're right, Williams. It's not quite as exciting as the old days when I had the Reapers trying to shoot the other half of my face off, but right now...boredom suits me just fine." The relationship with Tali didn't last and while Garrus dated extensively throughout his life, he died a bachelor and without children. At his bedside when he died after a long illness was Shepard, to whom Garrus' last words were, "I'll save you a seat at the bar."
Wrex - Ruled for several centuries as the chief of Clan Urdnot and a king in all but name over Tuchanka. In the aftermath of the genophage cure his rule saw a Krogan renaissance and colonization of several worlds. The colonization efforts were skillfully negotiated by Urdnot Bakara, whom Wrex had wisely appointed as the first Krogan ambassador to the Citadel Council since the outbreak of the Krogan Rebellions. He survived three assassination attempts and was the first clan chief in memory to die peacefully in his sleep, after a night spent spent celebrating a victory he had won in battle against a rival clan that had rebelled against Urdnot hegemony. By then quite elderly by Krogan standards, his official cause of death was listed as cardiovascular disease in both hearts exacerbated by acute ryncol poisoning. Even millenia after his death it is not uncommon to hear Krogan boast, whether true or not, that they have the blood of Urdnot Wrex in their veins. He was succeeded as clan chief by Urdnot Grunt.
Kaidan - After the reopening of the Grissom Academy, the Kaidan Alenko Scholarship fund continued to help send gifted biotic children to a renewed Ascension Project. When Virmire was eventually colonized a century after the Reaper War the first small human settlement was named Alenko. It would eventually grow to 4 million people, and become the capital city of the planet as colonization spread to other regions of the planet.
Tali - Returned to the Migrant Fleet. In the immediate aftermath of the war she supervised Quarian relief efforts in keeping Palaven supplied with dextro-protein based food to aid regions struck by famine during the Reaper War. Later as a member of the Admiralty Board she played a key role in the colonization effort on Rannoch. The relationship with Garrus never more than a brief diversion during war, she later settled down and married the captain of one of the Live Ships. Their children were among the first generation born on Rannoch since the end of the Morning War.
Joker - Medical advances in the aftermath of the Reaper War and synthetic bone weaves were able to entirely negate the effects of his disease, and he would remain in the Alliance for many years. During his long career he would serve as helmsman for every class of ship in the Alliance Navy, retiring as a Lt. Commander and flight instructor at Huygens Station orbiting Titan. He mourned EDI, but eventually married a colonist from Tiptree after the two had bonded over the shared loss of family and loved ones. He spent his remaining years as a merchant captain piloting the lucrative Earth-Citadel-Thessia trade route, and was survived by two children.
Chakwas - Dr. Chakwas spent the rest of her life in the Alliance and would eventually rise to the rank of Admiral, commanding the Alliance Navy Medical Corps. Thirty years after the Reaper War, and following the Alliance declassifying many of its records from the war, Chakwas would write a book about her wartime experiences aboard both ships named Normandy. The book was critically acclaimed and widely read upon release. Along with declassified captain's logs it would remain for centuries one of the most important sources for historians or biographers writing about the ships, Shepard, or members of the crew. Chakwas never married but had a lifelong relationship with Greg Adams.
Adams - Remained in the Alliance and eventually rose to the rank of Captain, retiring after having commanded the dreadnought SSV Matterhorn for several years.
Jacob - Remained with Brynn for the rest of his life. He spent a few years working as a security contractor for the Alliance, helping protect relief workers and refugees in areas where the Alliance couldn't spare their own personnel. In later years he used money saved from his time with both Cerberus and the Alliance to open a dive bar on a backstreet of the Silversun Strip. It became a popular drinking hole for merchant sailors or visiting Alliance military personnel. Named the Fox & Hounds after a favorite spot Jacob would frequent while a member of Cerberus cell based in England, C-Sec officers would derisively refer to it as the Hook-and-Jab because of the frequent drunken brawls they were called to break up.
Miranda - Following her death on Cronos details of the Lazarus Project would gradually become known, and be hailed as one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in human history. The procedure however would remain largely prohibitively expensive, and only affordable by the extremely wealthy.
Zaeed - Zaeed just disappeared though rumors circulated that he was living in a beach house purchased with money from a long career of mercenary work. Offers of work continued to be sent for years to an extranet address he had been known to use, without reply. Finally after years of having gone silent, Zaeed reappeared for one last job. No one knows why he came out of retirement for that last job when he had ignored offers for so many others. Maybe he had become bored. Maybe the money had finally run out. In either case it would be his last mission, and that time it was someone else who would be the last one out alive. His last words to that lone survivor were reportedly, "You'll have a hell of a gudammed story to tell, kid."
Kasumi - Like Zaeed she just disappeared, though years after the Reaper War rumors of her being involved in various heists began to circulate. Some of these were no doubt untrue as it would require her to be in more than one place at once, but all added to her legend as a master thief. All attempts to track her down by former comrades, bounty hunters, and C-Sec officers failed. Later rumors placed her in comfortable retirement in a rural region of Elysium, living under an assumed name in a Presidium penthouse, and working as a highly paid hacker for an Illium corporate conglomerate. Which if any of those were true was never been able to be determined.
Jack - Returned to the Grissom Academy upon it's reopening, spending the rest of her life working with the Ascension Project. Although she dated extensively she never settled down, and claimed the kids of the Ascension Project were the only family she'd ever need.
Grunt - Continued to serve as leader of Aralakh company in the aftermath of the Reaper War, and later as a chief military adviser for Urdot Grunt. For Krogan advisers are only valued if they can also fight, and Grunt proudly bore a half-dozen scars earned in various battles against Krogan who opposed Urdnot hegemony or Wrex's reforms. He personally slew the assassins in one of the failed attempts on Wrex's life and fought alongside him in his final battle. Upon Wrex's death he was unanimously declared chief of clan Urdnot after his primary rival for the position, a Krogan largely opposed to Wrex's reforms, was found beaten to death with the jawbone of a Kakliosaur. Grunt would live for nearly 2000 years, finally dying in battle while fighting for Council forces against an external enemy. The Council gave him a state funeral and his legendary final stand was the subject of at least a dozen Krogan drinking songs. One of his daughters would go on to become the first female chief of clan Urdnot.
Samara - Returned to the Asari monastery on Lesuss, would she would spent the rest of her days by her surviving daughter's side and aiding in the protection of the monastery's charges.
Vega - Remained in the Alliance and following reconstruction of the Vila Militar, was among the first class to complete Interplanetary Combatives Training in the aftermath of the Reaper War. He would eventually gain the coveted N7 designation and would rise to Staff Commander. Before retiring his last command was as captain of the SSV Normandy SR5. Years after the war he reconnected with Treya, and following his retirement the two moved in together in a Silversun Strip apartment. He was a frequent regular at the Hook-and-Jab.
Javik - True to his word Javik set out to find the graves of his men. Having completed his mission in seeing the Reapers destroyed, he took his own life.
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