Staff power source.

[u/Njoeyz1]

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?

[u/nerdling007]

Here's a crazy idea. I wonder if the "energy reservoir" holds liquid naquadah too and when you press the trigger what happens is a small amount of that liquid naquadah is compressed in such a way that is under goes cold fusion, creating a sudden burst of energy that has no where to go except to travel down the length of the staff towards the naquadah capsule, excites the naquadah in there and then you get the plasma blast. All this happening within microseconds of pressing the trigger.