Staff weapon
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The staff weapon is a directed-energy weapon and the standard weapon of Goa'uld and Jaffa forces. A similar weapon is used by Ori levies.
Design Flaws
The main problem with the staff weapon is it's shape, which resembles a spear over a meter in length. While this allows the weapon to be used as a quarterstaff in melee, it makes it large and cumbersome to fire in cramped conditions as well as being a very bad shape ergonomically for firing, limiting it's range to less than a hundred meters. Staff Weapons were designed by the Goa'uld primarially as weapons of Terror to keep in line various populations of primitives.
Staff weapons are powered by a Liquid Naquadah power cell and in general don't need to be reloaded during their operation lives.
Varients
A miniaturized, wrist-mounted variant of the staff wannon is the primary weapon of Kull warriors. These appear to have a higher rate of fire than standard Staff Weapons
See Also
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