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  • It makes them look mean. No seriously, it´s the standard fare (cliché if you will) of ruthless totalitarian rule, hordes of heavily armed men, faceless, merciless, implacable.
  • It works very well against non-powered weaponry--slugthrowers (what you and I call firearms), knives, clubs, vibroknives, punches and kicks. Keep in mind, a lot of the peoples the Empire were conquering were more primitive than the Empire, and thus would not have blasters. This is one of the reasons their land vehicles (AT-ATs and AT-STs) are made to look like beasts--it intimidates the hell out of the primitives. A lot more of the people the Stormtroopers would be pushing around would not have any blasters because it was illegal and punishable by death and imprisonment on many worlds. In the movies we mostly see Rebels and fringers like Solo and the bounty hunters who don't care about the law and arm themselves to the teeth, but the average citizen might not be able to get away with even carrying a stun blaster in the more civilized areas of the galaxy (outside of the Outer Rim). Basically, Stormtrooper armor works pretty good at what it was designed to do. Standing up to well-armed smugglers and Rebels with military-grade weaponry just isn't what it was designed to do. Why do you think that Han, Leia, Luke, Chewie, and Lando hang on to the Stormtroopers' rifles for so long when they get them? Because military weaponry is a lot better than even modified civilian blasters, right? And Stormtrooper armor isn't made to stand up to Stormtrooper rifles....
  • The armor is pointless. The stormtroopers are beaten by Ewoks with sticks and small rocks in RotJ. It also makes it incredibly easy to infiltrate the Empire since all you need is the outfit and you can walk around anywhere you want in thier buildings. Defense against 80lb small furry koala's - no Defense against any laser blast - no Helps spies - yes Limits visibility - yes Limits agility - yes
  • LOll - what a fantastic question - never thought about it like that before.
  • Ummmm.....it's not real, it's a movie for kids....so why des it matter there is no logic to it....signed HAL.
  • A question many in Afghanistan as asking right now........
  • The use of there armor is to feed the monglehords as they ravage middle earth.
  • It protects against knife wounds... Don't see any knife wounds in Star Wars you say? That is because they are wearing the armour!
  • I've often wondered the same thing. Any armor that can be defeated by teddy bears with bows and arrows and rocks needs to be chucked. Maybe it's good against food fights.
  • What's even more confusing, is why the blaster hit kills the stormtrooper, but leaves the armor completely intact without even discoloration.
  • Damm good question, i have always wondered this.
  • I assume those outfits have built in ventilators to provide air in space and different planet's atmospheres. They are also pretty intimidating, which is always a good thing. The helmet has a communication device in it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they had some kind of HUD to make their lives easier. There probably isn't much in the Star Wars world that would stand up to blasters (besides, of course, the skin of an AT-AT walker), so environmental protection and the intimidation is probably the biggest thing about the outfits, at least in George Lucas' addled mind. But come on, they don't even stand up to getting wailed on with ewok sticks? What crappy armor.

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