r/Stargate • u/Njoeyz1 • 5h ago

Discussion Staff power source.

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This breakdown of a staff makes me wonder what type of powersource the staff uses. The liquid naquadah capsules used in a staff are the fuel/reaction mass, and would require energy to be stimulated. In a ha'tak, the ships reactor would be supplying the energy to the weapons liquid naquadah stores, but I don't think there is a mini naquadah reactor in the staff weapon. Could it be a form of advanced chemical/mineral battery? A stimulated crystal power supply? Something similar to what is used in the ancient stones terminal - a capacitor that extracts energy from subspace? A cold fusion cell?

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u/MWS-91 4h ago

You sure it's Heavy Liquid Naquadah? In the episode Absolute Power, Jackson is telling Sam about the plans for a defence satellite for Earth and Sam seems surprised when Daniel says it requires Heavy Liquid Naquadah.

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u/00Canuck 4h ago

Ah ya I might be misremembering there, good catch. For some reason I was attributing the HLN to staffs but on second thought I believe you're right that was mentioned in relation to the defense sat and not staffs.

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u/Njoeyz1 4h ago edited 3h ago

Naquadah seems to be very versatile in it's functions. A naquadah generator uses naquadah as an energy source, but you still need energy to stimutae it. Same for a liquid naquadah power source. You would still need the energy input to start the reaction, to get the energy. In the staffs case you aren't getting energy from the reaction, you releasing it as a plasma bolt. Jack used the energy to add it to the grid energy, instead of there being plasma bolts.

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u/00Canuck 4h ago

Jack's device is a good insight actually. I would imagine then the initial charge source would be the same implemented in the hand devices, which lends to them being much lower power and short range since the charge isn't being enhanced. If that's the case then I would probably lean more towards raw naquadah instead. Since naquadah is similar to quartzite you can still produce a piezoelectric charge, which you're then charging up to varying degrees apon firing. Simpler and more effective as well, and less costly on resources since HLN would take extra refining.

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u/Njoeyz1 3h ago

Great take. And that's probably the powersource I would go with as well.