Boyzilla: a French proverb says "It is in the old pots that the best soups are made." I saw a video explaining how real space battles would go according to the laws of physics and... it wouldn't be exhilarating. A realistic space fight between two fleets would be days of acceleration... then other days of maneuvering to position... then as many days to slow down... Clashes occur at a long distance, beyond the visual range of the enemy. When the weapons used would be large pieces of scrap thrown by mass drivers. In addition, all maneuvers and shots would be entirely calculated by computers, without any human intervention... the brain being too slow to perceive movements at relativistic speeds.
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Intergalactic Drift
The Sirius, an Aurora-class Lantean Battleship, moved at high speed in the black nothingness streaked with bluish lines characteristics of hyperspace. Forward, as backward, the tunnel drilled by the moving spaceship distorted into a changing kaleidoscope.
On the bridge, two Asurans had just entered and effortlessly lifted Fenrir's stasis capsule. They were about to take the caisson to the hibernation chamber (where it would be more in its place) when a shock shook the whole ship.
The members of AR-1, like the Pegasus Replicators' hands, were used to traveling in hyperspace, and to see them looking around or leaning over the instruments, it was visible that what had just happened was not normal.
But the first to understand the origin of the phenomenon was... Ronon Dex. While the others were looking for a problem aboard the Sirius, he had looked outside the ship.
"Do you see that?!"
He pointed to the splendor of hyperspace... the corridor between the continuums twisted as the rays accelerated. Suddenly an iridescent ring of green flakes passed the Sirius and, again, a shock shook the ship.
This time McKay reacted. Pushing a crew member, he sat down in front of an Ancient control panel and began to press the keys at very high speed.
"No, no... tell me this isn't happening... tell me I'm wrong!"
Several virtual screens appeared above the keyboard. Reading both the Lantean as if it were his native language, the scientist looked at the columns of numbers running vertically and took his head in his hands.
"That's exactly what I feared."
John Sheppard approached his friend. He often had fun watching the exalted gestures of the Canadian when he ran into a problem... at least when he was not directly concerned. But that was obviously not the case this time. Sheppard was literally on the same boat as McKay.
"Rodney, what's going on?"
Rodney McKay raised his arms to heaven, swearing several times before answering.
"We opened a hyperspace window to leave Heruun's system just as the Isa Devise was turning the sun into a black hole."
Sheppard frowned at him.
"And? What's wrong?"
McKay interrupted his work to stare at his superior with the same frightened glance that an adult would have had for a child who would have said: "Oh, it's not a good idea to jump from the top of a building hanging from an umbrella?"
Massaging his forehead while moaning, the scientist replied in the simplest possible way.
"Opening a hyperspace door near a gravity well so powerful that any matter that falls into it is transformed into radiation is certainly not a good idea."
Just then, a new shock shook the Sirius.
"If you want proof, here's one," McKay added.
"Rodney, what are these shocks?"
"Oh, actually it's quite simple to understand... "
John looked at McKay with an expression of doubt... generally what the Canadian called "simple" required a PhD in quantum physics to be understood. Rodney continued his explanation without realizing that his audience was not very enthusiastic.
"... exotic particles and radiation from the black hole crossed the hyperspace window at the same time as we... A ship in hyperspace is not exactly on the move. On a sheet of paper, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line... unless you fold the sheet so that the two points touch. A hyperspatial displacement is a bit the same but in four-dimensional space-time. Four dimensions fold around us to match two points (the window of entry into hyperspace and the window of exit) with a 'fold' in the fifth dimension. The shocks that shake the Sirius are waves of exotic particles that travel with us. Every time we are hit, the exit window is pushed away... The navigation computer can't tell us how far we will be projected... but, likely, we have already left the Pegasus galaxy."
Teyla spoke up.
"Then we must get out of hyperspace immediately otherwise..."
"No."
A virtual window had just appeared near the young Athosian. It was the Asgard Fenrir. The Alien was easily recognizable by his gray skin and his huge, all-black, eyes. Although it was a computer-generated image, the representation was no different from the original.
The alien scientist quickly explained himself.
"If the ship exits the hyperspace... she will immediately disintegrate into subatomic particles."
"What?"
McKay nodded.
"As I tried to explain, we are surrounded by particles and radiation that change our point of emergence. How can I explain it simply? We are like a surfer surfing a tidal wave... our only chance of survival is to stay ahead of the wave until the force that sets it in motion runs out."
Still sitting in the commander's chair, Hakuno nodded. The on-board computer had confirmed that the reasoning and the calculations of the two scientists were accurate.
After a brief break to explain what surfing was to Teyla and Ronon so they would understand the comparison, John turned to McKay.
"Reassure me, Rodney, we're not gonna be catapulted to the other end of the universe?"
"Probably not," the Canadian immediately replied. "One thing is certain; once the energy we have accumulated has run out we will return to Einsteinian space."
"Okay, but where?"
McKay took a moment to reflect.
"We are still subject to the 'law of the masses'. Our trajectory is altered by the presence of masses bending space-time around them. We should come out of hyperspace in a galaxy, probably inside a planetary system... well if we're lucky."
This last remark did not comfort Ronon Dex.
"What if we're unlucky?"
"We'll come out inside a quasar."
The Satedan frowned. His level of astronomical knowledge was quite limited.
"A what?"
"A hypermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc formed by burning gas."
"And... I guess that's not a good thing."
While McKay facepalmed, Fenrir took the floor.
"You shouldn't worry about it."
Ronon replied while smiling ironically.
"Oh well, I wonder why I thought a ' supermassive black hole' was worrying."
" Ronon Dex, the Sirius would be destroyed so quickly that we wouldn't even have time to realize what's happening to us. So there's no need to worry about something we can't change."
On the virtual screen, Fenrir blinked slowly, perfectly serene...
The Sirius suddenly came out of a tear in the fabric of space-time, seeming to slow down faster than the laws of physics allowed.
The huge ship covered with turrets of weapons, antennas, airlocks, and bay windows had just reappeared in an ordinary planetary system with a yellow sun in its center and several planets in orbit.
Hakuno approached the computer.
"Code Cast: Hack."
Immediately virtual windows opened and closed all around her, so fast that an ordinary human would not have had time to read what was written. The Last Master had just activated all the sensors on board, collating their data and having them processed by computer. Hakuno Kisinami was mainly interested in natural sources of radio waves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma radiation.
The computers discovered several stellar objects that were like cosmic beacons whose radiation could be perceived billions of light years away, such as the quasar APM 08279+5255.
The hardest part was done. The rest only required to triangulate the position of the Sirius from several known points, which was not very complicated.
Hakuno entered the coordinates into the mainframe. If this galaxy were known to the Lanteans, it would appear in their catalogs and...
Several virtual screens appeared in front of Hakuno. The Last Master of the Moon frowned. Her doll face, usually so unemotional, reflected surprise. The flat holograms were not the usual blue. They appeared red with a brown and yellow hatched border.
The inscription was identical on all screens:
"Altera Galaxy: forbidden area."
There was a moment of silence, and then all the members of AR-1 began to speak at once, each of them asking for explanations.
Fenrir answered them. The module containing the personality of the scientist Asgard was connected to the mainframe, so he had direct access to information from the stellar catalog.
"I had always believed that the Ancients were from the Milky Way, but I have just discovered that this is not true. Before settling on Earth, they lived in this galaxy: Altera."
John Sheppard squinted, surprised.
"Why is this galaxy forbidden to the Ancients if it is their home galaxy?"
"Their species has certainly appeared here. But, as said in the Sirius archives, they were forced to flee after coming into conflict with those they call the Ori. Originally, the Ancients and the Ori were the same people, but there was a split after a major disagreement. The Ancients wanted to peacefully guide the less advanced civilizations by intervening as discreetly as possible so as not to hinder their evolution. On the contrary, the Ori wanted to rule over the people of the Altera Galaxy. Their goal was to accelerate their Ascension by absorbing the faith of the indigenous peoples forced to worship them as gods."
Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard looked up at the ceiling.
"False gods... this is so original. I'm not sure why, but I have very negative assumptions about these... Ori."
But Fenrir continued to tell the story he had discovered in the Sirius archives.
"Later, the Ori found traces of the Ancients in the Milky Way. To eliminate their enemies, the Ori did not hesitate to destroy all life in your home galaxy using a virus."
"We know what happened next," said McKay. "The Ancients used the Dakara Superweapon to assemble new life forms at the molecular level, simultaneously acting on all the planets that are part of Milky Way's Stargate Network and thus repopulating the galaxy. Then, the Ancients who had survived the virus emigrated to Lantea on board Atlantis."
They were still busy thinking about the revelations that had just been made to them when an alarm siren sounded. One of the officers leaned over his keyboard.
"A hyperspace window just opened!"
"The Ori?"
It was a logical reaction, but the officer's response surprised them.
"No, it's the characteristic energy emission of a Wraith techno-organic hyperspace engine."
"What?"
Another officer maneuvered some commands and a screen appeared in front of them. A Wraith Hive Ship slowed down as a hyperspace window closed behind him.
Rodney McKay sighed and shook his head.
"We went into hyperspace to escape the Heruun's black hole. They did like us. Same cause, same result."
This Wraith ship had been torn from its original galaxy by the same forces that had led them into the Altera Galaxy.
Shipwrecked millions of light-years from their original galaxy, two spaceships belonging to enemy civilizations measured themselves, showing their teeth, ready to jump at the throat.
Had they crossed the chasm between galaxies only to kill each other so far from home?
It seemed absurd...
But wasn't war basically a succession of absurdities?
Chulak, Milky Way Galaxy
Chulak was a planet a little smaller than Earth and 2000 light years from the solar system. The only remarkable thing in this planetary system was the two suns (Chaaporis, and Dennal) that illuminated it. Since Sokar defeated Apophis, this world has been independent. Even after the Serpent King has returned after the death of his jailer, nothing changed. But the peace of this world was not destined to last.
While nothing lets it presage, dozens of hyperspace windows appeared, letting out ships that slowed down quickly. They were Goa'uld mother ships, very recognizable by their central tetrahedron vaguely reminiscent of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The fleet was impressive: 12 Combat Ha'tak and 6 Transport Ha'tak, as well as independent squadrons of Al'kesh.
Slightly behind the rest of the fleet, one last spaceship came out of hyperspace. This mothership was some sort of cosmic monster. Black and immense, it vaguely resembled the drawing of a star with a circular center and several triangular "rays" coming out.
It was Anubis' flagship. The central dome contained a super-weapon capable of destroying a Ha'tak in a single shot.
Each mothership dropped a few squadrons of Death Gliders and Al'kesh, and then the fleet accelerated heading for Chulak.
Normally, three Free Jaffa's Ha'tak defended the planet.
This would certainly not have been a sufficient force to stop the invasion fleet... But two of the Ha'tak were absent, they had been sent to reinforce the garrison of Dakara. This left only one mothership in orbit, as well as three independent Ha'tak squadrons and a few land-based Death Glider squadrons.
We could not speak of a battle to describe what happened next. The only Free Jaffa Ha'tak rushed to the approaching fleet. Five enemy ships changed course to intercept her. Immediately energy shots were exchanged, striking shields or continuing into the cosmic void as a ship changed course in a dodge maneuver.
Anubis' fleet deployed to surround the Free Jaffa's spaceship. But the Free Jaffa had renounced all caution, having accepted that they had no chance of survival. Their combat maneuvers were splendid. They accelerated brutally and changed course, while the shots streaked the space without touching their ship. They passed between two enemy Ha'tak... just before their shields collapsed.
They took a few more shots which dug burning craters in their hull, before emerging in the free space, pursued by Death Gliders.
The Free Jaffa's Ha'tak rushed to Anubis' flagship and began firing... without doing any damage. The shields of the huge spacecraft could withstand the fire of more than ten non-modernized Ha'tak without weakening.
Disdaining the use of his super-weapon, Anudis retaliated with ordinary weaponry as squadrons of Al'kesh spun near the hull of the Free Jaffa ship, dropping plasma bombs.
Less than a minute later, the Ha'tak was nothing more than a wreck ripped open, surrounded by hull fragments, nebulas of frozen atmosphere, and ravaged by explosions that ended up dislocating it.
There were some Death Gliders still fighting, but Anubis lost interest, preferring to advance towards Chulak.
The immense flagship of the partially ascended Goa'ul stopped upright of the Chulak Stargate and turned so that the dome of the super-weapon was directed toward the surface of the planet.
Then, the dome opened like a flower as the spacecraft split into several concentric rings. The triangular 'petals' of the Anubis Superarm surrounded a well filled with golden light.
In the Pel'tak of his flagship, Anubis pressed a large red button inlaid in the armrest of his throne before turning to the window that allowed him to look towards the planet.
When the evil disembodied Goa'uld used his ultimate weapon against enemy ships, only one petal at a time was charged with energy. However, this time, each 'petal' was traversed by golden electric arcs. Suddenly each 'petal' projected a golden lightning that converged at the same place a few kilometers from the ship, merging into a titanic beam of golden plasma that struck the Chulak Stargate.
The stargate was made of Naqadah and the most basic of the properties of this black quartz-like substance was to amplify energy. The energetic discharge projected by Anubis's mothership was already formidable, but the Naqadah multiplied it tenfold.
The resulting explosion ridiculed the entire arsenal of Earth's nuclear powers. A ball of plasma grows, dazzling, rising to the highest layer of the atmosphere and spreading on the surface of the planet, devouring forests, vaporizing rivers and seas, toppling mountains... reducing cities to ashes.
From orbit, the planet's white-blue color turned yellow and grey while ashes, dust, and water vapor veiled the surface like a funeral shroud.
Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Earth
The Gateroom was located at Level 28, the deepest floor of this underground base. The room with the concrete wall was at the center of intense activity. Several teams of Marines armed with M-16s, or behind fast-firing guns, were watching the Gate.
At the bottom of the ramp, a group of technicians in white lab coats were busy around a MALP, making final adjustments. All were nervous.
However, two or three times a week, an SG team crossed the Stargate for a trip to another planet. Most often they encountered primitive peoples or abandoned cities, sometimes these trips resulted in fighting but it was quite rare.
But this time it was different, they were trying to open a door to a world they knew and had often visited, a world that was not hostile... but that no longer responded. This was their fourth attempt to open a wormhole to Chulak.
The Naquadah's ring turned on itself, then stopped. A chevron locked before the Gate started spinning again, exhaling bursts of carbon dioxide.
In the next room, the Chief Master Sergeant Walter was watching the process on a screen. The computer selected the next symbol in the sequence and added it to the address above.
"Chevron Six, locked."
There was only one last symbol to add. Behind Norman Walter Davis Harriman, the SG-1 team, Bra'tak, and General Georges Hammond observed the procedure without masking their concern.
On the other side of the ballistic glass bay, the Stargate had started turning again but...
"Chevron Seven... did not lock"
An alarm had just sounded as the process stopped. Walter turned to General Hammond.
"Shall I repeat the process, sir?"
The head of the SGC hesitated for a few moments, turning towards Bra'tac and Teal'c as to ask their permission.
"No, Walter. That will be enough for now. Tell the technicians to bring the MALP back to level 24.
"Yes, sir."
As they walked up the stairs to Level 27's briefing room, Samantha Carter turned to Colonel O'Neill walking beside her.
"One thing is for sure, the problem is not on our side. The Tok'ra used our Gate to return home."
"Any idea what might be blocking the Chulak's Gate?"
Sam smiled, amused.
"Only one? The Earth's Stargate has been blocked several times since it was buried by the Egyptians in revolt. Among the most ingenious methods for blocking a Stargate we can list the particle accelerator used by Sokar (1) or the Ancient Time Loop Machine that we found on P4X-639 (2)."
They sat around the conference table and summarized what they knew... that is, almost nothing. The Tok'ra had warned them that Anubis would attack Chulak and, now, they could no longer reach the planet. It was disturbing... really disturbing.
Hammond nodded his head.
"I called Thor to ask him to send a reconnaissance ship to Chulak. We must be patient while waiting for him to contact us."
The next day, while General Hammond was working in his office, a sound made him look up from his computer. In front of him, a dazzling ray of light seemed to fall from the ceiling and a form materialized. A Grey-like alien was now standing in front of him, sitting in a metal chair with an interface tablet operated by an Asgard Stone.
"Greeting, General Hammond, I'm Heimdall."
"Thank you for coming, what's the news?"
Heimdall was one of the friendliest Asgard towards the Tau'ri. Usually joyful, she (3) replied in a sad voice.
"Unfortunately, all I have to tell you is bad news. The Supreme Commander Thor sent me to Chulak. My research ship, the Daniel Jackson, is not a warship but she is fast and equipped with excellent sensors. It was therefore ideal for this mission. All I had to do was get within detection to understand that a terrible catastrophe had just happened."
"A catastrophe... Is it a natural phenomenon?"
"I highly doubt it, General Hammond. An explosion ravaged the planet. It seems that this explosion was centered on the site where the Chulak's Stargate was located. Within a radius of three thousand kilometers, the terrain was 100% devastated. Damage decreases with distance. Nevertheless, although I described several orbits around the planet, I managed to rescue only a few hundred Jaffa, all seriously injured. Because of the water vapor, ash, and dust suspended in the air that filters light and heat from the suns, the planet will cool down quickly... which should wipe out the ecosystem and make Chulak uninhabitable."
George Hammond remained silent for a few moments.
"Thank you, Heimdall. I will ask you to participate in a briefing with the members of SG-1 and Master Bra'tac. Could you repeat what you just told me? We would also need recordings of your sensors and anything else you could provide to us to better understand the tragedy that occurred on Chulak."
Heimdall blinked slowly.
"Please, General Hammond, count on me. I will do everything I can to help you." She seemed to think for a few moments and then spoke again." I have to apologize. I forgot to mention something in my preliminary report. I discovered many Goa'uld wrecks when I arrived in orbit of the planet. The largest of them was a Free Jaffa's Ha'tak. Some of the survivors I took on board came from this ship. They confirmed that Anubis attacked Chulak. Admittedly, there is a lack of proof that it is indeed a weapon used by this Goa'uld who is at the origin of this tragedy... but all indications point to this hypothesis."
Delmak, Apophis' Capital.
The Goa'uld Empire was huge, spanning tens of thousands of inhabited planets. Despite this, their empire was mostly made up of planets populated by human worshippers reaching (at best) a level of civilization equal to the Middle Ages.
On most of the Empire's worlds, only the palaces of the Underlords and Systemlords, as well as their warships, demonstrated the technological advances of the Goa'uld civilization.
Nevertheless, there were some rare industrialized planets. These were the forges where the weapons that equipped their Jaffa armies were made.
Among these industrialized worlds, Delmak was unmatched. Formerly Sokar's Homeworld, the planet was now the jewel of Apophis' crown. It was the only shipyard across the galaxy capable of building forty Ha'tak simultaneously.
The planet was covered with cities and industrial facilities. The buildings were square, utilitarian, and little decorated, very different from the flashy style, covered with gilding, so characteristic of the Goa'uld architecture. They lined up between large, dry canals crossed in their middle by raised roads that crossed at right angles. Numerous vehicles circulated between the factories vomiting smoke and the warehouses located in the suburbs.
In the sky, Tel'tak freighters landed and took off regularly, while Death Gliders patrolled by pair, flying close to the roofs of the city.
But all this seemed almost ordinary compared to the most impressive feature of this titanic city. Everywhere huge golden metal pyramids were visible. They were not monuments, temples, or palaces... they were landing pads. More than half of them were used by Ha'tak ready to take off. The superstructures of the Goa'uld motherships stretched far above the buildings, plunging them into permanent darkness.
A huge palace with domed roofs and colonnades dominated part of the city. It was the palace of Sokar... now that of Apophis. Nearby, a long avenue led to a large majestic square... and in the center of this square, there was a Chappa'ai (Stargate).
Of course, the place was heavily guarded. Several cohorts of Jaffa dressed in their usual chainmail armor were on guard, forming vast squares of soldiers at attention. Nevertheless, their chainmail was red and they had helmets shaped to look like cobra heads. They were the elite of Apophis's army: the Necropolis Serpent Guard.
Suddenly, the Stargate rotated.
The Serpent Guards dispersed. Some knelt to raise their Ma'tok Staffs towards the Gate, while others took shelter behind the columns that lined the square. Two staff-guns aimed at the rotating ring, while several tanks floating above the ground approached.
With a noise that sounded like "Wooosh", a stream of watery appearance came out of the ring as the last chevron locked. Now, some kind of mirror made of gently waving liquid occupied the interior of the Chappa'ai. Nervously, the guards prepared for the worst. No one was expected and they had good reason to believe that the enemies of their master could attack at any time. It must be said that Apophis had a certain 'talent' to be hated. His enemies' list only grew longer: Anubis, Ba'al, the Tau'ri, and above all the Shol'va (heretics/ Free Jaffa).
But the Serpent Guards hesitated to shoot seeing that only one individual came out of the Gate.
He was a humanoid with blond hair and red eyes with vertical pupils. He was dressed in a beautiful golden armor.
Gilgamesh (because it was him, of course) smiled ironically.
Seeing that the stranger was not attacking, a Jaffa spoke.
"Kree tal shal mak!" (Identify yourself!)
"Do you not know who I am? I'm the King, the One and Only."
Hearing this arrogant statement, the Jaffa leader immediately ordered an attack.
"Jaffa, kree!"
Several golden plasma spheres hit Gilgamesh's armor without him making a move to stop them.
"Bow down mongrels, solely for my sake!"
The Sumerian demi-god seized a weapon that had just appeared out of the Gate of Babylon, some sort of gigantic jagged sword, and -with an angry gesture- his arm described a horizontal circle's arc
And the sword gave birth to a burning shockwave. Briefly, a line of burned matter appeared on all the nearby buildings... then the brutally overheated stone exploded. A hurricane of flame spread in all directions, literally disintegrating the constructions and turning into a wall of fire that ran up all the surrounding streets.
It was the power of Sul-sagana: The Horizon of Dawn that Purifies the Seas, the sword of the god of war Zababa.
The wave of flame also spread among the Jaffa, hitting the tanks and gun turrets. In an instant, the Serpent Guards were thrown to the ground aflame and shriveled as they turned into smoking coal. Among the thousands of warriors defending the square... not one had survived.
At the sight of the carnage, Gilgamesh laughed haughtily:
"Between heaven and earth, there is only One King."
In an instant, Gilgamesh had swept a small army, destroying all defenses surrounding the Stargate. That said a lot about the power of the Servant, but attacking a planet alone was beyond the usual arrogance of the Edge of Heaven. Except... Gilgamesh wasn't alone.
The Stargate was still open, and Jaffa began to emerge from the ring of Naquadah. The emblem of Ba'al was on their forehead.
The most critical moment when Goa'uld invaded a planet was the crossing of the Chappa'ai. The defenses' troops could easily slaughter the attackers as they came out of the vortex... unless they used a secret weapon capable of massacring in an instant the garrison on the other side... as Gilgamesh had just demonstrated.
The King of Uruk only agreed to participate in the assault for one reason. When the One and Only King met the members of the SG Team Phoenix-1 on Dakara, he learned that Apophis had dared to manipulate him in the hope that he would attack the Tau'ri.
Such a crime of lèse-majesté could not go unpunished!
As he walked through the flames, still holding Sul-sagana in his hand, Gilgamesh smiled almost... amused but still icy.
Either Apophis was very brave, or he was an unredeemable idiot.
In both cases, he didn't need a head on his shoulders. Was it not the most natural task of the One and Only King to restore the world's purity and separate what should ever have been united? This beheading would be an act of pure kindness, it was necessary to shorten the sufferings of this sick beast.
It was well known that Gilgamesh was always willing to help others.
...
Don't dare contradict the King! When he utters a statement, it instantly transforms into reality
Author's note: Here is a chapter full of surprises and plot twists.
Hakuno was thrown into the Home Galaxy of the Ori (aboard an Ancient ship, with a crew of false Ancients... I let you imagine the reaction of the Ori when they met).
Plus: A Wraith's Hive Ship participates (involuntarily) in this bucolic stroll millions of light years from home.
Anubis destroyed the planet Chulak.
... and finally, Gilgamesh (allied with Ba'al) attacks Apophis on the planet Delmak.
(1) "Serpent's Song", season 2, episode 17.
(2) "Window of opportunity", Season 4, episode 6. It's a cult episode of "Stargate SG-1", one of the most humorous. Since nothing that Teal'c and O'Neill do has any consequences (since the Earth is sent back 10 hours in the past at the end of each loop), they start making increasingly absurd jokes... the climax is reached when dressed as golfers (with all the equipment) They turn the Gateroom into a Green, sending golf balls through the Stargate...
(3) The Asgard are sexless but not genderless. Their personality is either male (this is the case for the majority of the characters that appear in the series) or female... Heimdall has a female personality.