Armor Is Useless: Difference between revisions

** Many people make fun of the Stormtroopers' full body armor, which does not seem to protect them hits by lasersblasters or light sabers. However, noblasters Stormtrooperscan areturn everlarge chunks of hard materials into deadly shrapnel, and only one Stormtrooper was shown to go down whenfrom shrapnel from a laserclose blastblaster hitshit in a wall near(by themLeia), while some unarmored rebels do. Presumably, it was due to weaker joints — the neck seal is visibly black, not covered with white armor plating, and the helmet extends only over the front side. Thus, it might be shown that Stormtrooper armor does protect against shrapnel, [[Truth in Television|which is one of the main functions of real body armor in today's ballistic age]], and of course it's a sealed suit. Stormtrooper armor also seems to resist penetration from arrows and absorb the impact of rocks on Endor [[Rock Beats Laser|(though the wearers]] ''[[Rock Beats Laser|still]]'' [[Rock Beats Laser|went down anyway]] — again, it has weaker joints and ewoks swarming a trooper can choose where to stab). [[All There in the Manual|Other sources]] state the armour should still absorb most of the impact from a bolt if it fails to avoid penetration, [[Fan Wank|so clearly the reason the armour was so ineffective in the movies]] was [[Short-Range Long-Range Weapon|the commonly close-ranges of combat in it.]] and weapons [[BFG|of above-average power]]: what's good enough to protect from common sidearms and carbines may be insufficient to stop a direct hit from the sort of weapons that can blow tracks off a sandcrawler. And, of course, in many cases we don't know whether a given Stormtrooper was shot fatally, or knocked out with light injury and could fully recover after a few hours in bacta.