Nerdist But Star Wars Blaster bolts don’t act like lasers at all. It wouldn’t be visible if it was a laser and it would hit its target instantaneously instead of traveling in slow visible bolts. Also doesn’t help that your explanation contradicts information from both Legends and Disney Canon

Nerdist nice prediction about phasma armor ;-)

You're pretty darn close the big thing is is that it's actually really rare for the Stormtroopers to actually die, if there is too much damage done the armor will knock them out I think it releases gas in the helmet or something I don't remember

Nerdist has me bath in a bacta tank and there ready for service

Nerdist literally was about to ask about phasmas armor. She took a blaster shot and didn't budge

fairs mate

True

Scott Whatever his fucking muscles are stabbed every minute

Yee

The mandalorian has bekar steel that actually works as proper armour 💪

Hi fellow Sith Lord

Ah mesza's fallow non Canon sith lord daddy Lukes said meeza was canon before dam Disney

@@Tacosaucemann have you seen the movie?

@@Tacosaucemann he isn't

@@KakashiHatake-fq9iv who are you?

The Micropenis Maniac exactly. The heat energy is being spread over their entire body glove and causing them to pass out.

Thank you for mentioning this

Yes and also usually the KO”D stormtroopers are put in a Bacta tank for like 10minutes

Bojack that’s still pretty useless. In the heat of battle, an unconscious Trooper is as useful as a dead one. You might fight another day, but if you can’t carry on, then their’s no point in even wearing it.

@@howdoichangemyusername9802 yes but it's cheaper to keep them alive then recruit new troops and give them better armor

* is:

And scarier

Well he thought right

actually jedi robes are kinda stupid its never said armor stops them from using the force and they can use the force to increase they physical capabilities so not like its gonna encumber them and in legends you can see some old republic sith lords using battle armor

Eh, it is and isn’t. There are several reasons why the Jedi don’t use armor on a regular basis, probably the most common one being due to training. Fighting in loose clothing and fighting in armor are two very different experiences. Armor adds weight and does restrict movement. While there are armors like the stormtroopers where it is light and made to somewhat be bearable in mobility, that is mostly taking a soldiers mobility into consideration, not a Jedis. Jedi use various powers and forms to augment their abilities, many of them focusing on how they move around the battlefield. Form IV lightsaber combat, for example, utilizes extremely difficult acrobatic maneuvers that would otherwise be difficult with armor on. This isn’t to say that no Jedi used armor at all, but it was fairly uncommon. Obi Wan used a full suit of clone body armor in the beginning of the war to help him survive against blasters. Once he became more proficient in deflecting blaster bolts he removed sections of the armor for the sake of mobility. Even in the Old Republic era there were Jedi who utilized sections of armor into their robes. Another reason as to why you don’t see more Jedi using armor is that armor typically costs money. While the Jedi were a part of the republic and greatly respected and often requested for help in military operations, they weren’t always given a great deal of funding. In times of war this would be easier since I believe the republic gave them star fighters and such, but in times of peace owning and up keeping armor would be considerably more difficult. Most Jedi lived frugal lives, often times having very little money or material possessions as a form of discipline. This lack of funding is part of the reason why armor is a bit more of a rarity among Jedi and could very from one to the next.

@Korbin Although I could easily see a Jedi deciding to go rogue and become a mercenary. Mandalorian armor doesn't really prevent their mercs from being 'jump-around-like-a-kangaroo-on-acid-with-a-jetpack' style, and doesn't really restrict their mobility at all -- as seen in clone wars. From that point on, the MAIN threat to a jedi is being surrounded from literally all sides to where he can't possibly deflect all incoming blasts, so the mandalorian armor might come in handy then.

I want mandalorian armor

It's possible it's also just tradition or religion based. Or it could be the whole (it looks cooler) but finding reasons are funner... And yes I'm the guy who puts logic into anime.

Which also makes them immune to weaponry that doesn't have a high energy output, like balistic weaponry. Even .50cal wouldn't knock them out being displaced across their whole body (though it'd probably hurt, a lot).

Almost. The armor was only *resistant* to projectile weapons and blast shrapnel and protecting the wearer from glancing blaster bolts. Even this advanced armor often couldn't always save its wearer from direct blaster shots. However, it was possible for a trooper to survive direct hits, and after a quick bath in bacta, he was ready for service again. Slugthrowers were projectile weapon that fired solid projectiles enveloped in energy (known as slugs), as opposed to the energy bolts of a blaster. Slugthrowers were used by the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine. Fun Fact - These were surprisingly useful against lightsabers, as when a slug made contact with a blade, it simply melted instead of being deflected like a blaster bolt. These melted embers could then fly toward the face or hands of the lightsaber user. Sauce - Wookieepedia Edit - words

Evil Paragon 2 a .50 cal armor piercing would rip right through the armor though. It'll disperse the shock throughout the entire body but the slug will still go through and fuck up the stormtrooper. Also if it does stop it, the shock from a .50 will kill you even if the shock is dispersed throughout the body. A 50 cal hits with 12000-15000ft/lbs of energy. No one, wearing any sort of armor can survive that.

eh boron carbide might argue that "no one can survive a hit like that" since its designed to break apart the round itself and force its surface area to increase drastically relative to its volume. Seeing a 7.62 round leave no impact on non hardened clay after it hit the plate is quite surprising to say the least. AP rounds though were designed to rip through armor so yeah its going to go through, granted if you have that kind of firepower on hand then its probably not for the regular troops. Thing about weapons and armor is practicality and just because its more powerful doesn't mean its more useful. Compare the HVAP of the 76mm Sherman to the 17lb Sabot used by the Sherman Firefly and you see despite the fact the sabot has insanely high penetration, the fact it cant reliably hit the target made it not as useful as the HVAP round which could still pen the 4 in of armor the tiger had reliably at 500 yards. There is compromise to everything, as a barret 50 isnt exactly light to use.

Duncecap64 well the smaller lighter barret m107a3 is quite wieldy, check Miculek shooting one at pretty much full auto speeds. You could also set yourself up far away with a 50cal Gatling gun (gau19) and lay waste to an entire army of stormtroopers. And bullets go way faster than the blaster shots.

Still only have a limited number of slaves to produce what you need. Especially with the Rebellion rising up.

Additionally, it would still go with the cheap option. Even if you are rich, you still want to save money.

This is the same empire that does not give tie fighters shield generators.

Even before. Acess to effectivly an entire galaxy means effectivly infinite resources. The hard part is how to get those resources without destroying hubdres or millions of planetary economies. And as totalitarian as the emperor may have been and how little he cared about the people of the galaxy, he didnt want to destroy his empiere's economy.

Archie Manalang IKR

Activate Halo the novels confirmed that lightsabers are plasma.

Caleb Brazeau I know

Activate Halo so what's the problem?

Caleb Brazeau None

We see them yell and fall but not die, I am sure that there are Imperial M.A.S.H units ;)

Also, you can see in stormtrooper helmets, but only if you the owner/user of it. in other words, if you use the helmet every day/you are the owner of it, the armor activates it's targeting system(it exists). Disclaimer : this is legends not canon info

the recent canon book twilight company re-confirms most of that information and talks about a few of the armors other features and its psychological effects on the wearer

Ne0spartan we see them go down, we don't see what happened next. Could be they have Imperial MASH units, or there are millions of troopers, and the ones that get killed are replaced, and killed and replaced ad nauseum.

Ethan he literally said "Well we know its maid out of a thin layer of plastic stuff" . NOT PLASTOID

it does not kill them, they just pass out from the shot being safely dispersed throughout their entire body, they just put them in a bacta tank for 1 minute and there good.

Damn. My dude just wrote more words than I did in my English Exam.

@@canada9169 2 years late but it’s a common misconception that a shot kills them. It actually disperses the energy across their entire body, which overwhelms the nervous system and knocks them out. That’s why the first time we see them, the troopers are checking their comrade’s bodies to see if they’re still alive. Also, going back to the Tarkin doctrine, overwhelming uniform force makes the Empire seem unending

My bad @Red vs Blue, I was responding to the original commenter

Thought of the day: Armour that incaps you from a single hit is worse than no armour at all. Now the enemy has prisoners and can just doubletap or headcheck your guys. AMAZING! You might as well axe the limb armour and cover the chest and forearms with thicker plates. Now they might stay in the fight and cost the same.

This used to be Canon in star wars legends

In clone wars one I saw this storm trooper be shot he was down but was still moving around the ground and the jedo just ran off

I have this same theory, yes the troopers go down, BUT are they dead? We couldn’t conceive of this in our modern military, all soldiers are valuable on some level, but in the Empire where Stormtroopers are considered elite soldiers and at the same time expendable in comparison to their mission. We see plenty of troopers go down with the other Troopers not even batting an eye because they’re trained to be focused only on the task at hand. But I do remember in A New Hope after the opening battle when Vader boards the ship, one trooper cradling another that had been shot, maybe implying that the trooper was still alive at the time, just incapacitated.

In the Clone Wars series one of the main clone captains gets shot by a sniper and it put him on his ass. Didn't kill him but he had to take a few days to recover.

You couldn't really tell because there seems to be absolutely no indication of the identity of the soldier, or even their rank (only officers wear rank insignia in SW). In a 'real' military, there are different grades of privates and corporals and whatnot and they are all identifiable by rank insignia on their uniforms, while the Star Wars Imperial military doesn't display this. This makes the soldiers even more replaceable, and also makes it more difficult for the opponents to tell the true size of the imperial forces

Those stormtroopers who fought Ewoks, though, are 100% dead.

Yeah, I think most hardcore star wars fans ignore that part of the film... As well as the prequels and the changes in the re-releases of the original trilogy.

And eaten,don't forget that those stormtroopers have most likely been eaten...

Ewok food. Doesn't matter if they survived the damage, the ewoks killed and ate them anyway.

Fakenit66 I was about to comment this, thank you

How much does one get paid as a professional Star Wars nerd? I couldn’t find the job description on Glassdoor 😸

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Ok the stormtrooper armor does protect them it has been proven by a real star wars professional

Not only you luke... there is another.

The armour should scare the Citizens as well. And they should show that the empire is monotonous and dark too.

Chaos Space Marines

general kalani of the cis military

Kregers.

A Cadian

I say warp demons any one and if we are talking humans then a silent one or sister of battle noooo wait the ones who guard the emporer of man... Bless his holyness

As long as its a glancing shot. A direct hit will lessen your chances of surviving.

I believe that is also cannon.

Idiocy Incorporated it is

This is actually pretty close to what happens to armored earth soldiers. They get knocked on their rears after getting hit in the armor.

Esburrito thank you

Samurai Scunt we see that in ANH sucks for the ones luke shot into the shaft.

The thing i don't get is how effective stormtrooper armour was at deflecting projectile wepons

Derf565 ewok arrows went in.

Edward Becerra arrows will penetrate modern armour.

Edward Becerra also, the arrows penetrated between the plastoid plates.

That was such a cool part, I wish this happend more often. (Deflecting shots)

Disney hasn't thought that far ahead.

Well legends in now considered not cannon despite the fact this strong trooper fainting thing wouldn't really affect the Disney sequel stories

@@evanremillard5640 neither did the originals your point?

You see this in rebels, look closely at the stormtroopers after they’ve been shot.

@@samueltheskywing7358 nope, only ones we see shot and get up were shot by Ezra, who only stuns

^ ^

You can't be held together by a magnetic field when there is no magnet in your center. The plasma would be a magnetic material, which would be insanely heated to make it a plasma. It would be like super heating neodymium or ferrite, which also makes it lose magnetivity.

@General Grievous, it’s Star Wars. Tie fighters shouldn’t be able to fly in atmosphere, and there is no way short of a magical space crystal to power a lightsaber as there depicted in the movies, besides I didn’t make this up that’s how it’s explained in the comics

@@creberuswang766 in rogue one a storm trooper was getting shot many times and u can still hear him screaming

Eddy G, what’s your point?

I think clone wear better armor then the stromtrooper...

Indeed, it is another kind of armor

Rex says storm trooper armor is crap and clone trooper armor is way better

Dont forget battle front

Agree w/ Alejandro here. Just cuz they all fall down doesn’t mean they all die. Just that guy who fell down the shaft... Getting hit w/ a bullet in our modern armor hurts like hell too. I’d fall down and cry for mommy for a few seconds too

Which is kinda what we've seen happen to unarmoured people in starwars, they get thrown back with force and sometimes roasted to a crisp depending on the weapon.

So what you are saying is a blaster do damage by force and not by Peirceing and do to the way storm trooper armour is constructed it displaces the shock causing the storm trooper to be knocked out

In a sense yes, or it causes such a shock that enough damage to bones or organs is done to render them out of action.

John J cool

Also, Ordinary Bullet rising guns exist in star wars, and these cannot penetrate the armour

because I *am the senate*

They are all clones anyway

@@soccerplaya102289 "Oh, and please be so kind to ignore the new moon-sized object in your planets orbit, that's just a coincidence."

@@michaeldmingo9454 Imperial Stormtroopers aren't clones, though.

@@gianni.sacciloto the early ones where. There was a handful on the 1st death star when Luke was on it

Qufox yes and if you can't see their face than they can't show fear or pain

Somewhat, it's like the warriors called the "immortals" in Persian army, if one falls down then another takes it place. A constant stream of a group of people who only want one thing - you out of the picture. I think That would be quite intimidating and mentally exhausting.

The armour was designed with the fear factor in mind, yes, but having everyone wear the same stuff doesn't instill fear. I mean, look at Phase 1 clone troopers. Do they look scary?

There's a difference between 'scary' and 'intimidating'. 'Scary' is entirely subjective and is to instil fear, which could trigger fight instincts where the target will make it a point to take down as many as they can as fast as they can and give others a chance to get away. 'Intimidating' is less subjective and is to demoralise, which is more likely to result in the target throwing down their weapon and surrendering.

The German Mason -- yes but looking at history, the KKK does the same thing they were those white wizard suits (lol) to try and instill fear

Chaos Marines popped into my head right as he said that lol

*Angry Terminator noises*

Exactly this!

Warriors of Chaos from wh fanstasy also qualify.

My very first thought.

That's from legends. At least that's where I know it from.

1234kalmar oh okay

+1234kalmar It's also canon

Even surviving after getting medical care would make it worth it.

KILLEKIRAHVI it's funny how you can't be certain if that thing you remember is still canon ever since disney killed the eu.

That's most likely because of poor acting more than anything else. In a clip showed in this video where Luke shoots a stormtrooper he hits him in the shoulder and the stormtrooper still reacts like dying and falls off.

Hatesh Warkio Because the force of the blaster is spread over as much as the armour as possible, and knocks the trooper out. It's kinda hard to stay upright when you lose consciousness.

*Nathan Mason* Then the armor is completely useless. We've seen people getting hit with a blaster and not getting knocked out by it. Even getting hit by several blasters into an armor and not getting knocked out by it.

Hatesh Warkio Nah not really, personally I can't think of a time in the OT that happens, but you could chalk that up to the rebellion not using standardised blasters, some being more powerful than others. The only consistant blaster they seem to have though is Solo's DL-44, punching through most armours and even the occupants.

*Nathan Mason* Isn't there Han Solo shot into the arm and still continuing the fight during episode V or VI? Why does the rebellion which are basically criminals for the Empire have better blasters than the Empire? And where did they get them? Why isn't Stormtrooper's armor then better as protection for the most likely weapon to be used against it? If it is because it is supposed to be cheap then isn't better for those Stormtroopers die anyway instead of being knocked out? Dead Stormtrooper means one down for your army. Knocked out Stormtrooper means one down for your army for this battle and if you lose it is a potential leak of information or even a new member of rebellion and if you win he has to be taken care of and sent to some medical wing on the ship or something which costs money too. Why does the Stormtrooper's mask have something like upside down smiley or mustache, depends on how you view, on it?

I think he didn't talk about clone wars

He says "In the films"

Clones had better armor than the storm troopers but both would still have protected the wearer

I can tell you I'd definitely take storm trooper armor over none on the Star Wars battlefield. Otherwise in a matter of seconds the radiation from missed laser shots would still be enough to knock you out if not kill you outright

Clones have better armor but heavier

Obi-Wan Kenobi define plastoid without using the word plastic

Repins Watson gladly Plastoid, or plasarmor, was the material used in the armor of the Galactic Republic's clone troopers, and later in the ImperialStormtrooper Corps. Plastoid tubing was often used to reinforce the walls of buildings. Some of the structures in Mos Eisley on Tatooine were made from this material. Plastoid was also used to produce sturdy chairs and other furniture, and even non-lethal slug rounds. These plastoid rounds were known to be used by the Republic's Senate Commandos for crowd control and situations where killing was undesirable. One place where chairs manufactured of this material were found was on the Galactic Alliance ship Admiral Ackbar. Plastoid was also used as a prosthetic material. Mirta Gev was one such user who used the material to repair her broken nose

Tldr. A very strong, versatile polymer.

it's not plastic, its a material what is famous for dispersing energy.

Obi-Wan Kenobi You didnt define it you just gave examples of its uses

If you can find the issue, you should read the Dark Horse(?) comics story "Trooper". It was in one of their anthology Star Wars books.

Skribduex the armor usually kept the troopers alive in most fights against most publicly purchased blasters. If you look deeply enough into the lore of the weapons many of the rebels had blaster pistols much stronger than the accounted for toughness of the armor

Skribduex so it may hit them and some might die

Skribduex most however get knocked put

Skribduex out*

Cristian Morales *POV*

*obi wan voice* yes, a certain point of view

N'yeeeaasss -- KH

Cristian Morales indeed :v

Hey i just commented that. Great minds think alike

he had explained why it would be impossible for blasters to be plasma weapons in the video, and why did you press return twice after every thought about this put down? Keeping it s 1 or 2 paragraphs would have been so much better.

Lasers behave absolutely nothing like what we see in star wars. Plasma is "basically gases", but it's a lot denser and viscous than gases, so it stays together a lot better than normal gases (well, it's obviously not a gas at all. More like a mix between a gas and a liquid). It's also electromagnetic, so electromagnetism can be used to keep a bolt together. If you look at plasma cutters the plasma doesn't just fart out in every direction like Kyle would want us to believe. It goes forward in a stream, until it cools down to a normal gas again.

Master Evar isn't the blue "bolt" of lighting just plasma being made by the electric discharge?

Yes, it is. A hot soup of nuclei and electrons. The perfect conductor to carry electrical charge between the ground and the sky.

I know Wikipedia isn't the best source for information but this is the closest thing to what I was talking about. Plasma weapons of sorts are in the works but are experimental. "The weapon was able to produce doughnut-shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating thermal and mechanical effects when hitting their target and produced pulse of electromagnetic radiation that could scramble electronics." Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER It is obvious that we can't produce anything on the scale or as refined as Starwars, but the science is heading in the direction. It has been proven that plasma can be fired out in a self-sustaining doughnut shape. If you were to tighten it up a whole lot, it would probably look a lot like a blaster bolt. It also stated that it explodes on impact which would explain the way Starwars blaster bolts seem to explode on impact. My comment was mainly to state the more likely reason for the armor being the way it is. It seemed to be a bit far-fetched that the empire (which has lots of press to deal with) would risk using armor that didn't work most of the time. I mean, most modern military body armor for troops can block ~3-4 rifle shots. With the way Stormtroopers were dropping you'd think that they would be better off without the armor. It would make sense for them to be knocked out though as it would ensure that the wearer would be more likely to survive. Hell, even getting shot in modern days wearing a bulletproof vest can knock you out if you aren't used to the force and people seem to like them as is. Why would that change a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away?

To be honest: The advantage is that audiences can see it. -- KH

Nerdist and for Jedi to deflect them...

In the canon they are NOT lasers they are plasma contained in a packet of energy.

Engineer But what the hell is “a packet of energy” supposed to mean?

Linksbro I think of them as off brand brotherhood so they don't seem as imposing to me

Linksbro *cough* space marines *cough*

Meh, they’re just as imposing, not much more. In the Fallout universe especially, they’re not that special

Zone Troopers and Black Hand troops (Command and Conquer), Helgast (Killzone), the Locust and COG (Gears of War)...

Naw we can do better, Chaos Space Marines.

Stormtroopers still die in droves to blasters and non-blaster weaponry so the armor is shit

But a percentage of them might be merely incapacitated but still can be patched up afterwards. That's better than 100% dead.

@Chrisrtian Dauz They don't die, they're incapacitated as Toto Wolff stated. Its similar to be tasered which is why they collapse and fall down instantly. Larger weapons found on space craft however can be lethal as it would overwhelm the dissipating action and still inflict a lethal amount of energy. Additionally, some rebels carry larger illegally modified weapons which can be lethal, but most rebels don't have access to these, only the elite tier special ops types.

Toto Wolff phasma's suit reflects the blaster shots tho

Which it idiotically didn't in Episode 7 - there Phasma was held at gun-point with the same type of weapons to which in episode 8 she apparently was immune while wearing the same suit of chrome armor.

I originally thought the same thing, but the question remains, how does the magnetic field remain stable or present, once it has left the blaster? I would think that the plasma energy would also have to be encapsulated around some energy cell which continuously creates a magnetic field, but this is speculation.

@@Technotranceism Fair enough. I guess for now, until the technology is actually made, we can just say "future science magic", lol.

It is definitely defined as some form of particle projection, it's just what kind of particles, and how exactly it is projected as a bolt that remains a mystery.

They could use some kind of micro bullets that exist in the magazine, these would create small magnetic fields that would keep the plasma together and would be the thing that is propelled forward.

Batteries occasionally need to be replaced or recharged, therefore making ammunition, or battery life, an actual cause for concern.

I believe the blasters use a magnetic field to stop the plasma from expanding

The projectile could work like an AAT shell, with a metal middle and the plasma being contained around it, causing it to last longer.

@@PibbDFanta blaster bolts are superheated plasma held together by a force field. Also those aren't laser weapons because if you had a laser strong enough to dig in the armor you are looking at around 3-10 watts which will fry your eyes faster than you can blink.

No. Clones get shot, but they keep on fighting (even with headshots). They either really die, or the armor is barley heavy enough to leave them mortally wounded.

bajanhunter501st Well that's new for me. Can you source the info so I can read more?

Mar Speedsman basically clone armor gives you wounds that are fatal in a couple of hours but you can keep fighting for those couple of hours, but the stormtrooper armor basically knocks you out for a couple of hours but when you wake up you can just grab a gun and fight some more

I agree. The armor is useful

Clone armor - Stop the blaster _(Or you survive or you die in some hours...)_ Stormtrooper armor - Absorb the blaster _(You probably survive a shot.)_ Mandalorian Armor, made of Beskar - Deflect the blaster _(This thing keep you alive against light sabers, blasters and bullets.)_

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haha wow

According to canon, blasters are plasma and lightsabers are a loop of hot energy (also could be seen as plasma).

....Yes -- KH

Well grorge lucas im pretty sure didn't major in any type of sience and just thought it'd make sense and went with it. A plasma sword makes more sense than a plasma blaster, i mean you need extreme heat to be able to cut through a blast door so.. an oversized archwelder makes sense i guess (probably the wrong example but you get my point i hope)

Some explaining to his physics teacher "A wookiee ate my homework!"

Considering war is won more by armor, artillery, air support and (in this case) orbital support than infantry and their guns, it is sensible.

It's not like they use the sights a lot anyway ...

Its because every main character is protected by plot

@@ladyimgay1138 Literally so during the death star escape, the only instance where Imps kill nobody.

I don't know about the new canon but in the old EU blasters had magnetic coils in their barrels that kept the blaster bolts from losing coherence as they fly out.

either way, the point is the same. Plasma has little to no mass, so what damages is the heat.

Kylo ren held one using the force. Maybe we can gather a theory from that?

+Briel Layman good point. He must be using some sort of force restrain, like he did with Rey.

I don't think plasma is quite the right term, but it's definitely not lasers. Maybe some other sort of charged particles, perhaps one we don't really know about yet.

sheafferw I immediately thought of Kyle when Luke said that haha

It's an uphill battle for me now. They have the high ground you might say -- KH

sheafferw don't spoil T.T

Yeah me 2

You know Kyle knows we're sitting there waiting for it in every episode. So now we really will be surprised. God we're nerds.

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zoinks

Alexander Reinfield where is the invincible storm trooper division of super commandos?

Alexander Reinfield it's made from one of Palpatines naboo ships

And she got held at gunpoint by Finn in tfa

Arcane_Rogue bullshit how could they? you mean the resistance whom are heavily underfunded can afford the best guns? but the government cant? wtf? stop watching game theory/film theory he's almost always wrong

Eh, the rebellion used to be the republic, the single greatest political power in the universe. The empire is Run Like Soviet Russia, China, and North Korea. The Republic was run much more similarly to the way the U.S. is run. What happened was that the Republic was overthrown by an elected politician that was using his position to begin feuds with other governments such as the Trade Federation, etc. Specifically, he was creating unacceptable trade blockades and tarrifs on the goods produced by the trade federation(they made most of the droids and biodroid technology that the Republic imported). The blockades and tariffs got so ridiculous that a war broke out, with the Trade Federation blowing the doors off of the capital city of Naboo, a strong political hub. In the hysteria of war, he managed to basically get himself elected emperor. The people who founded the rebellion and eventually the new Republic were basically the elites of the old Republic, with nearly limitless sums of money and things, that they simply had to tuck away on distant planets and carefully manage. Also, a lot of connections run deep and after what went down, between the many other governments across the galaxy and the newly founded Empire(which basically backstabbed them all) it's pretty easy to call in favors or at the very least get access to purchase high end weaponry. It is important to note that x-wings were built with cutting edge technology at the time they were being used by the Rebellion, and that while they couldn't outrun Tie Fighters in a straight sprint, they were typically more agile, had better on-board communications and strategic instruments. No, the rebellion was not poor, they were however growing tired, and their numbers were dwindling down. As far as access to good weapons, spacecraft, etc. They were good to go. Anyone in the universe with the guts to do so, was backing them 100%.

Capn Smashem empire can afford the most powerful blasters period they made a death star they're more than Soviet russia

he was talking about how it was ran not about how powerful they were

Capn Smashem What are you talking about? Empire was a Republic

Yes! I’d love to see that too

Memory metal could be the simple answer. If you have never seen it, it looks like magic. There are vids on KZfaq where it’s in a coil/or plate, and they stretch it out or kink it. When they add heat it goes back to its original shape. Otherwise, a super-strong Metal near its low-temp melting point, as his skin, should be flexible enough for Colossus to move.

Doctor Cthulhu, ok. Thank you for the answer! It helped a lot and that actually makes since.

"Not to mention its semi effective against projectile weapons." Assuming this is even true, almost no one uses, making it useless. "As for Phasma, JJ tried and failed to make the Boba Fett/Darth Maul of this trilogy. She had a good run in 8 but was a joke in 7." Not sure what this has to do with this video, but both boba fett and darth maul were punks that didn't get much screentime at all. And both died in fairly hilarious, ridiculous ways. I think Phasma was pretty cool. She didn't get much screentime, and I was disappointed with her depiction in Ep 8, but don't make those other characters out to be any better. And don't bring in that non-canon legends crap that made up ridiculous excuses to bring dead characters back to life after they obviously died.

Non-canon? The clone wars show had a pretty cool Darth Maul and gave Boba some back story and that is all canon.

It didn't seem to help them at all against the pathetic bows and rocks the ewoks had...

It is also canon that that they just get knocked out

the thing is... if you are galactic empire and have power to blow up planets then in MOST of the times you do not need troopers to actually make fighting - if you wipe out enemy fleet and bombard their anti-air/anti-space defences they are defenceless and your troopers are just occupation force and not actual "storm" one. And going back to "Ewoks case" - GE could not wipe planet as they tried to make its usefulness/purpose as hidden as possible but they deployed some troopers and AT-ST as general defence force of their hidden base. In normal circumstances (i.e. if Ewoks rebels on their own) they could always eradicate life on planet from orbit so they do not really had to care about long lasting defences.

merten0083 I hope they overlook us NDNs. Or maybe we joined the Empire. If we exist there.

But the Ewoks beat the armor with rocks and clubs.

merten0083 and yet they got slaughtered by Ewoks...

Unless they’re nazis it’s okay to kill nazis

Oslo Da Pig I was going to leave a witty comment but then I saw your name and prof pic and I just can't even 🤣

I guess that is why we have the General Hux scene in TFA when they saluted similar to the Riegh.

It works well for the image though, a large force of clean, immaculate faceless goons all fiercely loyal to the Empire

No shit genius, ya want a cookie? Everyone knows the "real" reason anything happens in fiction, because the author wanted X, the director wanted Y, the game studio wanted Z etc. etc. That's *not* the answer people are looking for when they go into deep dives into fiction like this, they want the in-universe answer.

Captain Rex says in rebels that he can’t see a thing in the helmets

That happens in every action movie. Bad guys miss because good guys have plot armor

He explained it in this video. He stated he couldn't see a thing in that helmet when he walked into that animated bulk head.

easy, the force (the power of the plot)

Have you seen how slow those blasts travel? They're way slower than bullets. They're like, Nerf gun speed at best

Plasma by definition is electrically charged and carries a magnetic field. Thats why plasma != gas. Thats why solar flares don't just dissipate all around like a fart. It acts like a fluid. This guy on youtube didn't learn science.

Ian Mak Just look at Covenant weapons.

That is correct - plasma is a complex fluid. A simple, stable form that keeps plasma together is a simple current loop. The Lorentz force keeps the plasma from dissipating. Another way to think about it would be the Z-pinch effect, but in a circle.

Jaygon! Yeah they explain it a lot better in the Halo novels

In star wars, the gas is actually turned into a solid chunk of energy and shot by magnetism. (Very short explanation.) A few guys in to comments have explained it in much greater detail if you can find them.

exactly good research

Correct They had a 20% chance of actually dieing

JokeReloader Keep in mind that the storm trooper’s misses were almost all against the A team, which included 2 force sensitive individuals who could potentially deflect blaster fire subconsciously, and a guy who was born lucky.

he was never hit...

That's called "plot armor" and only the writers can get through that.

Also, if both Blasters and Lightsabers use electromagnetically contained plasma, it would explain why blaster bolts reflect off of lightsabers. The fields interact with each other. Which makes me think that there could be a situation where a Jedi tries to block a slugthrower shot with his lightsaber and gets shot in the face anyway. (I did the calculation. Even if the lightsaber had 5000°C, the bullet would heat up by a mere fraction of a degree while passing through it.)

In real life, there are many soldiers knocked in a battle with concussion injuries are the ones who wear level 3 plate in their vest.

Mr. Fister what about slip?

This is what I was thinking watching this video. When cops wearing armour are shot the protocol is to immediately check their vests for a bullet catch, which will look like a coin from splatting flat against it. The force is like a bowling ball smashing your chest can knock officers down, unconscious or keel over in extreme pain, but after medical attention is very survivable.

They got killed by rocks too. Thrown by teddie-bears. Enough with the "oh this actually makes sense" bullshit.

Just Someone they didn’t die from rocks they got knocked out

still not enough reason to rewatch it

She actually gets shot and it bounces off..

J C yep

Phasma. RIP. So underused. Coulda, shoulda, woulda. :(

Mateus Mota Sales yeah ikr

I meant to say your....I'm not a dum dum...lol

anakin starkiller Depends how you set your phasers.

Yeah, he said that in the video..

Kratos510e what time

username I know that blasters can change to stun mode where the shots are big rings but on kill mode the stormtroopers rarely get killed

anakin starkiller 7:40

Also a laser just as all other forms of light wouldn't be visible from the sides.

"unlike most pepole think stormtroopers DO NOT die in most situations thay are stunned" Bullshit.

Malamockq why? Read wookiepedia...

While olodemolo MCAroom is correct that most troopers are essentially put into a "down but not out" state when hit there is the thing that most hits we see in the movies are made with heavy blasters which can pierce most armor so most of the troopers we see get hit probably do die.

"Read wookiepedia..." That's non-canon legends bullshit. I only care about what's in the actual movies, and when a guy is hit in the chest and goes down, it stands to reason that the dude is dead. "While olodemolo MCAroom is correct that most troopers are essentially put into a "down but not out" state when hit" I don't buy it, despite what legends would have you believe.

I finally bought myself a Switch. -- KH

That didn't necessarily answer my question,but cool. What game(s) are you gonna play first?

I always ask people"what did you get me for your birthday"

Nerdist I bet you are taking in that breath of the wild ;) ;)

Thumbs up. For the name and the picture.

Oh god that sounds so wrong XD

Well, “Im here to science you” does sound like you're about to get your mind fucked, which isn't necessarily "not good". :-)

You're actually right, I remember reading somewhere that lightsabers cannot deflect physical bullets

Miguel Valero Arcia I know this is a spoiler but continue

Actually it's becuase her armor is made out of the same metal as a starship IE she's pretty much invisible becuase she has better armor.

Also, there is a scene in rogue 1 where a stormtrooper takes a shot and it doesn’t pierce his armor

first order has been improved from imperial armor, a higher priority on their troopers survival dictated that.

Sean Rea Rogue One happens just before A New Hope. The New Order was established after Ep 6. What?

I LITERALLY thought the same exact thing.

shh, they forgot to check the basement, those losers.

Death troopers

Wait are you talking about the division or SHD

the SS stormtroopers are what the, wekk, stormtroopers, are based on.