Hi,

that was a great storry, thank you for sharing it

Absolutely amazing story, you capture the essence of Mass Effect so well. I was joking with a friend about it, but the characters make the logical choice to show just how much proof there is that the reapers exist and are coming. It’s hilarious to me that in the bad ending the reapers are just stopped. Don’t even worry about, the reapers are dead lol. Ending my ramble, I loved the story, and all the stories that go along with it. I sincerely hope you write another ME story someday. Cheers!

Fantastic story through and through. I had days of enjoyment reading this and experiencing the well-thought out character interactions and drama. Your writing and story telling skills are superb. Great story for Tali fans like me.

I can only hope you would have the time to create a sequel to “for tomorrow” that details the reaper war as it would provide immense satisfaction unlike anything presented in the canon story. Mostly I am curious to see your take on the genophage plotline or even some other original storyline. Thank you for this beautiful story and the time you put into it. Cant wait to see what you create next.

Sad to see Thane’s role differ than canon ME3 but still seems like a noble story for him

HE KILLED KEN NOOO

You've done a beautiful job expanding on the nuances of the quarian-geth conflict. The explanation for geth thinking processes that Tali explained to the Conclave was some of the best I've ever read. You've successfully portrayed the geth as the original BioWare writers intended (prior to management interference and the Pinocchio effect in ME3). Also, Shepard's use of physics aboard the Xenophon was tactically brilliant and exactly the kind of out-of-the-box thinking I like from my protagonists.

Major props.

Read this too recently to re-read but looking forward to enjoying it even more after some time. Thanks for writing this!

This story has always been one of the best in the fandom, and even more so now after the rewrite. The battles are inspiring, the crew interactions feel just right, and the sprinkling of tragedy and trauma is a perfect fit. Great job on this.

I started reading this years ago and then lost track of it. Your plotting is brilliant, I wish I could do as good a job, your dialogue is on point and often laugh-out-loud hilarious, I really love it. I even went back and re-read the whole collection again because I remembered enjoying it that much. Turned out it had been so long since I'd read it, it was like reading it for the first time all over again. (And it was still genius stuff. Thank you!) Kind of a tough act to follow, I'm sure; now you've told the story of how Council Space saved itself from itself, got the geth AND the quarians back.

BUT...

The reapers are still out there. I know - and I mean I KNOW - that you can write a better ending WITH a better story than that Hindenburg of an ending "buy-o-ware" phoned in, but it's been quite a while since you wrote, it seems. I have my own story unfolding, but I'm starting just a few minutes before the opening scenes of ME1 and slowly veering off to an AU, and trying to keep as much original story as possible, even with the things that are being changed as minor changes have effects that reverberate in big ways later on...and allow for a better ending with the reapers after the party crashing at Cronos Station.

Although "For Tomorrow We Die" needs at least a full dose of editorial review to take out a few redundant words, and remove "the" before the name of a any given ship (yeah, I'm a Navy dork,) I am entirely confident that you are a much better storyteller than I, and it's just a crying shame you haven't posted anything in a while. As a mere semipro writer myself, I appreciate the amount of time and skull sweat involved in writing, especially in writing well. The world is a less shiny place without your writing, and all our favourite characters in the various ME event schemes you have spawned are sitting around doing finger rolls waiting for you to lead them in facing the reaper invasion - and hopefully find a solution that doesn't involve wiping out the thousands of galactic civilisations that the reapers themselves embody.

Alternatively, can I possibly involve you in helping me plot out what to cover on my way to doing that? I have - only in the past fortnight - finally had my lapels grabbed by a reader who had given me a firm shaking to demand a next chapter after a five-month hiatus. The second most helpful thing he did was present me with a content analysis of what's been done and an inexhaustive list of things to make sure I cover. Since I only have a Betelgeuse-sized amount of respect for your writing, and it seems you are (or at least were) a fan of Mass Effect, it might be a way to keep your hand in the game (a more apt expression than it seems at first glance) if you still have any interest but not as much time as you did when writing FTWD.

(So far, it has taken something like 350,000 words for me to get them off the Citadel, to Therum, to Luna, and they're just now handling the biotics who've captured MP Martin Burns, and will next handle Major Kyle on Presrop. I also have another 300,000 words of the stuff I want to make sure shows up before we get to the Big Finish. Did you even thumbnail an outline, or have any concepts that you had planned to use? Or have you washed your hands of this?)

If nothing else, thank you again for a delightful and eminently re-readable romp through a Mass Effect AU. At the very least, I'm sure I'll be referring back to it for inspired banter. (If I may be so bold, it was better than anything Heinlein wrote in Stranger in a Strange Land.)

One of the best stories I've found on this site, thanks for sharing this

Catching as I apparently missed (or didn't log back in) for a long time.

Thanks again, Z, for giving of yourself for the rest of us to enjoy, laugh, cry, whoop, and all the other sundry emotions you've elicited over the years.

Every time I come back to one of your stories, or something new is published it is like returning to an older friend, to sit and enjoy the words to come.

Well done.

Thank you for rewriting a great story into an even better story.

Full confession I skipped the sad ending but maybe I'll go back and read it but who needs more of that in their lives lol! But I loved every bit of this! You capture the characters and the complexity of the Mass Effect universe really well, I could hear the characters voices in my head. And no bashing! I HATE bash fics but somehow you included all the main characters and avoided hating on anybody and that's rare. Good job!

Man what an absolutely atrocious ending to a compelling story. I regret ever reading this if I knew this was how it was gonna go. This is Game of thrones level stuff

Ahh, a less tragic end