EP IV - Something that occurred to me

[der_kluge]

I was thinking about all the Star Wars movies the other day, and I came across a problem that I haven't been able to overlook.

In Star Wars: A new Hope, when Obi, Luke, Han, Chewie and the droids are sucked into the Death Star via the tractor beam, and the hide in the falcon, they hide in the cargo storage.

The two Stormtroopers go in and then you hear two quick laser blasts. Luke and Han then emerge from the Falcon donning Stormtrooper outfits.

The question is - where are the blaster holes in their outfits??! They obviously shot and killed them, so wouldn't it follow that they'd be laser scarring and/or holes in their uniforms?

No, I don't know why it took me 20 years to notice this.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Set the blaster for stun and you don't kill anyone. Nor do you leave holes in the armor.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Set the blaster for stun and you don't kill anyone. Nor do you leave holes in the armor.

Or maybe the blasts were from the Stormtroopers, but they missed. It's possible that Luke and Han were dancing a jig to distract them while Ben levitated their helmets off and Chewie hit them over the head with an ironing board.

Or something a little less corny...

 

[der_kluge]

So, if stun guns are so effective like that - why even wear the armor in the first place? What good is it? I've never seen a laser blast deflect off a stormtrooper.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Stormtrooper armor would do many things even if it cannot protect against direct hits.

1. Protect against shrapnel.
2. Protect against gas and other such agents.
3. Integrated communication system.
4. Integrated targetting system.

So, if stun guns are so effective like that - why even wear the armor in the first place? What good is it? I've never seen a laser blast deflect off a stormtrooper.

 

[Rel]

So, if stun guns are so effective like that - why even wear the armor in the first place? What good is it? I've never seen a laser blast deflect off a stormtrooper.

Well, in the unlikely event that you got into a fight with some punk-ass little aliens from some backwater, mud-hut planet who had stone-age technology, you'd be invulnerable!


What?

 

[Rel]

4. Integrated targetting system.

I'm sorry, Doc, but this one seems a bit unlikely, wouldn't you say?

How about:
4. Integrated peripheral vision reduction system.

 

[Umbran]

C'mon, folks. We all know the purpose of the purpose of the armor is cosmetic - for psychological effect. All the troopers look the same, ratehr mechanistic, and menacing - to make all the troopers look the same, slightly mechanistic, and menacing. Any actual armoring of the body is secondary to this.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Not at all. As long as Stormtroopers are not firing at the stars of the movies they are deadly accurate.

Look at how quickly they captured Leia's ship in Star Wars or how quickly they penetrated right into the Hoth Command Center in Empires.

Storntroopers are deadly effective troops in every combat scene that a hero is not in.

I'm sorry, Doc, but this one seems a bit unlikely, wouldn't you say?

How about:
4. Integrated peripheral vision reduction system.

 

[Wolf72]

or ... Ben deflects the laser blasts ... then chewie beats em up!

why armor ... I like the back water world, that ceramic/plastic type should do a good job of blocking/deflecting lots of slug throwers ...

and I think it was suppossed to look intimidating too