a breif point is made about the storm trooper armor...
i'd like to discuss this in detail as it has been an ache on my mind for many years...
according to the official SW RPG, ST armor is valued at 8,000 IC. and you have to have rather rediculous stats to be eligable to receive one... there are many parts to it as it covers the whole body (ie. helmet, sleves, leggings, shoulderpads, boots, gloves, vest, cuffs, and black under layer.), which makes it hard to decearn your regular elite trained loyal troops from a smuggler and rebel wannabe farm boy just wearing the uniforms of dead troops to infiltrate your base and kill you to save a princess...
that, and if you're actually a troop... it takes a bloody long time to put on, and severs peripheral vision, while the black absorbs alot of heat as it clings to the skin offering no breathing room.
now this rather interesting product of Composite Ceramics Technology is shapped like armor, is multi layered and would not be comfortable, thereby restricing movement and being an impediment to maximum combat efficiency...
now taking this into consideration combined with the fact that it is easier to penetrate than a drugged, drunk, paid prostitute on prom night... it begs one to ponder the reason into the empire issuing them to it's soldiers/police.
lets look at the field testing shall we...
laser proof? no.
trip proof? no.
jedi mind trick resistant? no.
light sabre proof? no.
explosion proof? no.
impact proof? no.
blunt force trauma proof? no.
somesort of inner helmet targetting system to improove aim? apparantly not!!!
worst of all...
lets look at the ewok bow and arrow. a common bane of the storm trooper armor as outlined by chefelf and shown in ROTJ.
given the height of an ewok... some 3-4 feet high. it can only be logically assumed that the longest bow available for use could be no longer than 2 feet (and that's being generous). given the arm length of the average adult member of the species, and that none of these bows are composit bows, it gives us a combined strength:pull ratio that would, at best, allow one to only just penetrate a cork board at 15 feet.
and yet, this galactacley unrenowned weapon is sufficient to perforate a soldier in Galactic Empire Issue Storm Trooper armor.
how exactly is one expected to honestly believe the empire was able to concor so many bloody planets (planets with ample supplies of rocks to throw, and species with stronger pitching arms than ewoks) in it's supprisingly succesfull run, in its estblishing years...?
tell me...
This post has been edited by barend: 18 January 2005 - 07:47 AM