Liquid Naquadah / Staff Weapon power

Freeman · Liquid Naquadah / Staff Weapon power

I've not seen phys reps of staff weapon power cells, so I wondered if these would do the job?

Olivia Chase

If there is nothng in the series to refer to, then they look great. Are they glass or plastic?

Freeman

Plastic, filled with water, shiney springlies, and food coloring (which was added by me)

This is what they use in the show as best I can find out

Colour Sargent Rob Knight

Very cool, works very well and seems ideal for a prop idea.

Harry Font

was told by Dave that they were crystals. Not that big. So had a box with bits in to represent the crystals.

To get them to blow up was told that you need to short them out and they take 3-4 mins to overlaod. They then go boom, not told how powerfull but great filme effect :O). So cant set them as a good timed device.

Thats all the info i was given on that.

Freeman

Hmm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_weapon
Wiki says Liquid Naquadah, screen shot from series is clearly liquid held in containment glass (or similar).
Perhaps Dave was on about something else? Or am I on about something else?

Hmm Also on the wiki is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqahdah#Naqahdah
Weapons grade Naquadah is the top half - the box stuff, liquid naquadah is the bottom pic (like I used above)

Harry Font

no that was staff weaponms crystals and zat crystals. needed to know as i had 10 of each and was using them as an improvised explosive.

Freeman

Bugger there goes THAT piece of research I was doing then!
I'll chat with Dave when he gets back

Fenric

That is a picture of a staff weapon power source though/.

Freeman

Yeah canonically I'm right. It's a liquid source under containment in staff weapons. BUT if the game's broken from canon, then my research is kinda wasted.

sm0keyb

This is a continuity failure. There is a whole section in the Wiki, which is from a much earlier downtime of mine as Connor which clearly defines the Staff & Zat power source as liquid Naquadah, in the gameworld. There is also another DT that identifies all the different types of crystals, they're basically control elements, like memory, gates, processors & so one. That one didn't get turned into a Wiki article before Connor died but crystals were not classified as power sources in the gameworld. Some types of crystal can be made to explode though because they are power conductors or controllers. This may be where the confusion has arisen.

Freeman

Well as a phys rep it's closer to the TV canon liquid naquadah than a box of bits (whichis more like weapons grade naquadah - for missiles and such) so I'm gonna go with what I have I think.

Richard Tyler

Crystals are used for storing data. They may control power flow but (for Goa'uld / jaffa technology) I cant think of any (canon) use of crystals as a power source. The magic unbeliveably stable yet extremely volatile naquidah is whats used for staff and zat power.

sm0keyb