Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25012056-20141025153920/@comment-27723099-20141108104936

Oh, please stop with these pseudo-scientific explanations of Star Wars technology.

But yesterday I read another interesting thing about lasers: Every armour has different reflection and absorption percentages for every frequency of light. Metal reflects a good percentage of the light, so you need much energy to do reasonable damage with a laser in the visible frequency. But if you use UV or IR lasers, most metals can't reflect it.