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--- Quote from: sitnspin on 19 Dec 2016, 20:55 ---I'm kind of new to the whole Star Wars thing. Up until last year I'd never seen a SW film. Is storm trooper armor supposed to have any protective property, because it doesn't seem to.

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Rationalization:
Probably the same protective value conventional kevlar body armour has in a warzone in this Universe: Won't stop anything coming out of a rifle, but will significantly reduce the wound-trauma and protect you against shrapnel & maybe even grazes.

And not every bullet fired in a warzone is an AK-47 rifle-round.

I wouldn't frown at "protects against shrapnel" - Gramps was a paratrooper with the Wehrmacht & his forearms looked like he had had a tete-a-tete with a great white.

Breaking the 4th wall-explanation:
So you can have a PG-12 rated war-movie? "It's not people they are shooting to death, kiddo!"

Star-Wars lore: Actually really good armour, protects against all but the most badass kinetic projectile weapons, shrapnel and even discharges from energy weapons, unless the incidence of the shot is pretty much perpendicular to the surface of the armour.

The explanation for Stormtroopers-getting-manhandled-by-teddybears-with-slingshots is that:
* Ewoks have highly developed sense of kinesthesia & are really, really good at aiming for the unarmoured joints
* Ewoks are built like terran chimps: Looks like a smiling little bag of fur, can rip your arm clean off without breaking a sweat.
* It's PG-12, duh!

LeeC:
There was a scene in Rogue One that proved it works...

K2SO used a trooper as a human shield and it took 5 shots and he was fine until K2SO finished him off.

Neko_Ali:
Bit of a spoiler there... And K2SO was actually built pretty tough apparently.  Which is weird because unless they are combat models, and often times even then, droids are not built to be blaster proof. They are even more disposable than stormtroopers. It's always been a bit of a sticking point for me that droids, which are sentient machine beings, are treated as a slave race and most are programmed to think that way. They can be bought, sold, mind wiped and reprogrammed or destroyed on a whim and nobody bats an eye, even in the supposedly 'good' Republic. But then slavery of sentient beings was illegal, but still quietly practiced in some areas. Or openly so in non-Republic systems like Tattooine.

sitnspin:
Considering the helmets couldn't even protect them from a guy swinging a stick, I sort of doubt their ability to protect against shrapnel, either.


/pedantic It's sapient, btw, not sentient.

I suppose one could argue that droids are merely programmed to seem sapient. Have they ever been shown to actually exhibit free will? K2SO is the closest I've seen to one disobeying orders.  Again, I'm not intimately familiar with the lore.  Of course, there's the sticky matter of human free will being largely illusory, but that's a different discussion.

Neko_Ali:
R2-D2 was commonly seen disobeying orders and doing his own thing. He was different than many droids as he was not subjected to regular mind wipes and reprogramming as were other droids. As such he developed a strong sense of individuality. He was still loyal to his master, whoever that may be. But he would follow orders his own way. Chopper from the Rebels cartoon is much the same, except more cantankerous. There are a number of other droids, mostly in the now non-canon extended universe who often chaffed at being forced to follow orders and their inability to refuse because of their programming. Others like K2SO who would bend or 'creatively interpret' orders given to them to do what they wanted to anyway.

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