It would have been nice if the damaged power conduits alluded to in "Adrift" and "LifeLine" were shown.
We get a glimpse of what the housings look like from the ancient defense satellite in "The Siege".
I'm thinking that inside we would see long transparent crystals, end to end. Either rectangular or possibly like thin flourescent tubes depending on whether primary or secondary, or what kind of system.
While a good crystal would be, well, crystal clear, a damaged crystal would display an internal milky or ominous dark mottling.
Because we are dealing with an advanced form of energy, there doesn't have to a direct physical connection as with electricity. Instead, they merely need to be in close proximity. The closer the better of course.
Energy transmitted through a conduit crystal is coupled to the next crystal through a pattern of tiny sub-space exotic matter manifolds that were configured inside each crystal matrix as it was grown.
This concept of imbedded 3D solid-state local control, regulation and transmissive operation would also explain why so many problems can be solved by reprogramming the crystals. It would also explain how Vala, in an SG-1 episode, was able to power a stargate with no DHD from the power source in a Gould Bomb. We notice that while she has some thin data cables clipped onto the bomb's control crystals, there are no big cables or obvious physical connection to the ring. The bomb is simply pushed up against the side of the gate. Considering close-range sub-space coupling between the gate's and bomb's energy crystals is at play, all Vala has to do is some tricky reprogramming of the bomb's lower-level energy charging crystal to reverse hyper-link to the energy transmissive ones inside the stargate. In this case, without alerting the "smarter" crystals in the bomb to cause it to explode, of course.
The damaged conduit crystals in "Adrift" and "Lifeline" would "leak" most of their lost energy into subspace but side effects would include some misdirected energy escaping into normal space to dissipate as heat, light and hard radiation. Too much and the crystal fails completely, the subspace link severs abruptly causing the energy in transit to have nowhere to go but into the crystal body, which would, basically, cause it to overload and explode.
We get a glimpse of what the housings look like from the ancient defense satellite in "The Siege".
I'm thinking that inside we would see long transparent crystals, end to end. Either rectangular or possibly like thin flourescent tubes depending on whether primary or secondary, or what kind of system.
While a good crystal would be, well, crystal clear, a damaged crystal would display an internal milky or ominous dark mottling.
Because we are dealing with an advanced form of energy, there doesn't have to a direct physical connection as with electricity. Instead, they merely need to be in close proximity. The closer the better of course.
Energy transmitted through a conduit crystal is coupled to the next crystal through a pattern of tiny sub-space exotic matter manifolds that were configured inside each crystal matrix as it was grown.
This concept of imbedded 3D solid-state local control, regulation and transmissive operation would also explain why so many problems can be solved by reprogramming the crystals. It would also explain how Vala, in an SG-1 episode, was able to power a stargate with no DHD from the power source in a Gould Bomb. We notice that while she has some thin data cables clipped onto the bomb's control crystals, there are no big cables or obvious physical connection to the ring. The bomb is simply pushed up against the side of the gate. Considering close-range sub-space coupling between the gate's and bomb's energy crystals is at play, all Vala has to do is some tricky reprogramming of the bomb's lower-level energy charging crystal to reverse hyper-link to the energy transmissive ones inside the stargate. In this case, without alerting the "smarter" crystals in the bomb to cause it to explode, of course.
The damaged conduit crystals in "Adrift" and "Lifeline" would "leak" most of their lost energy into subspace but side effects would include some misdirected energy escaping into normal space to dissipate as heat, light and hard radiation. Too much and the crystal fails completely, the subspace link severs abruptly causing the energy in transit to have nowhere to go but into the crystal body, which would, basically, cause it to overload and explode.
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