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Originally Posted by Numbah One

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Honest question--What is the point of the Stormtrooper "armor?"
Its two main features seem to be impairing mobility and offering zero actual protection.

I'm a SW fan, but I'm not really at Nerd level. Has this topic already been sorted out?

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Originally Posted by cosmo20002

Honest question--What is the point of the Stormtrooper "armor?"
Its two main features seem to be impairing mobility and offering zero actual protection.

I'm a SW fan, but I'm not really at Nerd level. Has this topic already been sorted out?

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[NewChief]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

Honest question--What is the point of the Stormtrooper "armor?"
Its two main features seem to be impairing mobility and offering zero actual protection.

I'm a SW fan, but I'm not really at Nerd level. Has this topic already been sorted out?

You asked for it:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stormtrooper_armor

Stormtrooper armor

"How about you get into this armor and try to see out of this damn helmet?"
―Alpha-956[src]

Stormtrooper armor was a distinctive white plastoid body armor over a sealed black body glove worn by Imperial stormtroopers, and in this respect appeared similar to their Clone Wars Phase II clone trooper armor predecessors, having acquired its color from the austere tastes of its Kaminoan creators. The complete set of eighteen pieces completely encased the body and typically had no individually distinguishing marking outside of rank. In fact, the casual first-time observer sometimes mistook the Stormtroopers as a form of battle droid.

It also protected the troopers from very harsh environments as well as projectiles and kinetic energy weapons.[1] The armor significantly reduced damage to the wearer from a blaster bolt, but it could be completely penetrated by a more powerful cannon blast. The body glove allowed for operation in warm or cold climates, however it could protect the trooper from almost any environment -- from total vacuum conditions to the very extremes in cold and heat for a very limited period of time. The Imperial Army soon acquired the use of the armor in the later years of the Galactic Empire.

Rank was indicated with colored pauldrons. In certain situations, Stormtroopers sometimes wore camouflage armor to help them blend in with different environments. The Stormtrooper corps instituted this reform after the embarrassing defeat at the Battle of Endor.

Private ownership of stormtrooper armor was strictly forbidden by the Empire.[2]



"Our body armor isn’t able to withstand direct blaster shots, but it is designed to survive the most extreme conditions."
―TK329[src]


The most obvious function of the armor was protection against weapons fire and battlefield hazards. The armor, and the body glove worn beneath, were designed to disperse the energy of a blaster bolt and insulate the wearer, lessening injury. Although standard armor lacked the durability to make the wearer immune to cannon fire, it could partially deflect or disperse energy from low, medium, and high-energy blaster bolts; though the wearer may be incapacitated, survival would allow the trooper to receive advanced medical treatment that may return him to service. It also deflected stun beams, and served as excellent protection against explosions and shrapnel, thereby drastically reducing the effective casualty radius of fragmentation weapons used against troops wearing such armor. It was almost impossible to kill a stormtrooper with a slugthrower unless the bullet was abnormally large, specifically armor piercing, or if it hit the body glove or visor lenses. Although this armor provided less protection from blaster weapons than wartime Phase I and Phase II armor, it offered superior protection from the elements.[1] In addition, the stormtrooper armor could also deflect glancing bolts and reduce damage from bolts absorbed.


Stormtrooper armor was fitted with air filters and fully sealed against chemical and biological attack; the armor could even protect the wearer against vacuum for a limited time.[1] A back-mounted tank contained 20 minutes of emergency oxygen. The aforementioned body glove also provided limited thermal protection.

All components for stormtrooper armor and equipment is manufactured to the highest standards in the Empire. As a result, their armor lasted indefinitely, and may even be still found half-buried at decades-old battle sites.

Most stormtrooper armor was integrated with standard personal ray-shield projectors (in direct contrast of clone troopers) in order to survive open blaster fire in case cover was nonexistent or limited. It also improved hand-to-hand combat, making standard troopers capable of surviving contact with vibroblades (although did not provide any protection towards lightsabers). Nevertheless, the power consumption of shield projectors was very high and they tended to overheat and fail under sustained blaster fire or under prolonged contact with a lightsaber and unless the trooper carried a power generator (which were very bulky) the shield projector could take several minutes until it could be reactivated once it failed. These factors made personal trooper shields very rarely seen on prolonged engagements and/or where terrain had a certain degree of surrounding cover. Also lack of experience from novice cadets towards blaster and lightsaber firepower made the shield projector an underestimated and underused piece of equipment.

Other features of the armor included:
The gloves could be powered up during Hand-to-Hand combat to deliver stun shocks.[3]
The stomach armor contained a Manual Suit Seal and environmental controls.[3]
The thigh armor had a reinforced alloy plate ridge.
The lower left leg segment, near the knee, contained the suit's axillary power cells.[3]
The left upper side of the shin armor had a knee protector plate for comfort from a kneeling firing position.
IFF circuitry was in the back of the suit for identification and command purposes for identifying each other.
A resonator to open secure doors


By 130 ABY, stormtrooper armor had reportedly been further strengthened to absorb and diffuse direct blaster hits. However, during the Battle of Borosk between the 407th and 908th stormtrooper divisions, it was observed that direct blaster hits seemed to render troopers incapacitated, although it is possible that the effect of the blast was dissipated and the trooper survived.
By this date, slight modifications had been made to stormtrooper armor in the breathing system and back plate, and the leg armor were modified with separated knee pieces, which brought a visage likeness to the clone trooper armor.

Also, in a return to the convention followed in the early years of the Clone Wars, the armor of NCOs were distinguished by different colors. For example, sergeants were identified by yellow-green stripes that ran the length of their arm, similar to the Katarn VI armor
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In the early years of the Galactic Empire stormtroopers made use of Phase II clone trooper armor.


"I can't see a thing in this helmet!"
―Luke Skywalker[src]


Stormtrooper helmets consisted of four-layer construction. The outer layer was made of plastoid composite armor, the next layer was an anti-blaster mesh, followed by magnetic shielding, and finally an inner insulator.[4] Cellular padding helped prevent head injury.[1]


During the height of the Galactic Empire, the standard-issue helmet included a rubber guard strip that acted as the border between the face and the cranium of the helmet. In addition, the cranium "shell" portion of the helmet was made of plastisteel armor, and contained osmotic filter plates on the sides and back of the helmet. For the rear osmotic filters, they contained heat dispersion vents for dissipating heat. On the front of the helmet, the helmet contained a pair of Soldex automatic polarizing filters. In addition, the characteristic frown on the helmets acted as natural air vents. In addition, there were also heat dispersion vents located near the Soldex filters. Dymak Exhaust Filters were likewise located near the rim of the helmet. The vocoder direct speaker interface was likewise located on the "chin" of the helmet, between two Bliar induction filters. Near the back of the helmet was a 3814-7 auto-seal conduit. On the sides of the helmet were auditory sensors, which were connected to a lateral conduit housing. Inside the helmet was a ComTech Series IV speaker system within the auditory sensor, which was equipped with a three-phase Sonic motivator and was connected via power conduits to atmospheric processing units, which included a Motivator sending unit and ventral power units. In the ventral area of the helmet's interior, the edges of the hemet were lined with Reifflex cellular padding. In addition, the interior of the helmet's front area contained a Voice activator housing, and the user would speak via a ComTech sensa-mic. The same equipment also came with a dermal cross link. The equipment was also between two Atmospheric transduction nozzles, which connected the Bliar filters to the atmospheric processing units.

Over time, the helmets evolved and implemented new technology. For example, earlier models included only simple eye lenses with very few visual modes available, such as infrared view and basical targeting systems, but as technology increased, the helmets began to feature more advanced visual targeting systems including:

Automatic polarizing and anti-flash blinding lenses protected the trooper against intense glare and provided them with enhanced combat vision or "Holographic Vision Processors" (which allowed vision through many barriers such as smoke, darkness and fire.[4]

Multi-Frequency Targeting and Acquisition System (MFTAS) helped with the stormtroopers' perception in darkness as well as smoke and other visibility obscuring conditions.

Additionally, stormtrooper helmets contained features such as:
Built-in comlink (see below)
Advanced Breathing Filters (which acted as protection against chemical and biological attacks, as well as toxins)
Cooling and atmosphere control systems[4]

By 130 ABY, stormtrooper helmets included updated sensors. The helmet's appearance was also slightly modified to appear as a cross between the Phase II clone trooper armor and the original stormtrooper helmets. A number of variations were also introduced to accommodate alien species that were newly allowed to enroll in the Stormtrooper Corps. Still, Stormtrooper helmets shared a very common difficulty. A helmet needed to be powered by using a general code provided by a central system . This was meant to prevent piracy or stealing of helmets. By doing this, if by any reason the helmet was stolen, the thief could not be able to access any of the visual modes of the helmet, making it very difficult to see through it.

Audio/visualEdit

Storm vid recording

A video recording from a stormtrooper's helmet.

A comlink with frequency changing options was built into the trooper's helmet. The comlink used linked encoding sequences to rotate frequencies every few seconds while keeping all troopers in the unit synchronized. If a trooper's helmet was removed without the trooper first hitting the comlink's control stud (most likely found on the under-rim of the helmet), the frequency coding routine was automatically deleted from that helmet.

The Comtech Series IV helmet speaker used three-phase sonic filtering for clear sound[4] (for troopers, it was connected to the audio pickup). It also had a vocoder for talking to non-stormtroopers. Video recorders were included in some helmets.
Utility belt and backpackEdit

Stormtroopers were also equipped with a utility belt. This would include:
A high-tension wire
Two grappling hooks
Four spare blaster power packs
Three ion flares
Energy rations
A spare comlink
Three water packs
Two medpacs.
Two blast energy sinks
A Thermal detonator
Combat de-ionizer
Binders

The backplate of the standard armor contained a power pack as well as a small supply of air (see above).[4] In certain deployments, stormtroopers were equipped with backpacks. These backpacks would contain:[4]
An extended air supply
Additional communications gear
Cooling systems
Mortar launchers
A heater (contained in the snowtrooper backpack)
Additional rations

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****. The look of this movie is insane.

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Originally Posted by Numbah One

****. The look of this movie is insane.

I'm sorry, the poor black guy. It's still like a "which of these pictures is not like the other." Not only because he's black, but it's the look on his face (WTF am I doin' on this damned desert planet?) and his clothing as well. He looks like someone from a fan made movie.

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Jeans and a turtleneck is the FUTURE!

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New teaser!

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Originally Posted by keg in kc

New teaser!

Where?? Gimme gimme!!

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Oh wow