By 2183, she had reached the rank of Lieutenant Commander and become Executive Officer of the SSV Normandy, under Captain David Anderson. Shepard was afterwards invited to join the N7 program, and graduated the next year with the coveted distinction. During the siege, she sent the majority of her squad to their deaths in order to wipe out the batarians at the base, including those who surrendered.

At the age of eighteen, she enlisted in the Alliance, and she saw her first notable action in the Skyllian Blitz of 2176 and the Siege of Torfan in 2178. Born in Riga, capital city of Latvia, Shepard was an orphan who was left to fend for herself on the streets from an early age, and throughout her teenage years, she ran with gangs and engaged in various kinds of crimes in order to survive. September 20th, 2154, killed in action July 7th, 2187) was the former commanding officer of the Systems Alliance frigate Normandy SR-2, an N7 operative, and humanity's first Spectre, most notable for the role she played in the 2183 Battle of the Citadel, the destruction of the Collector base, and the 2186–87 Reaper War. And knowing now what I was missing out on, I can't… I can't thank you enough. You brought me to the light, made me a better person, gave my life meaning. And most of all, you showed me what it was like to truly be alive, and not just existing, and what I'd been missing out on by not knowing about any of that.

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