Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-34435400-20180122182038/@comment-31845174-20180122222431

Actually, there are several YouTube videos about this topic. Stormtrooper armor is cheap, and if you were to look at A New Hope, Han Solo's gun, when getting into a fight with Stormtroopers, and his gun hits, and breaks, rock. Armor may be weak, but if a gun is able to do that, then if it were to hit a person, full charge, then there would be nothing left but a cloud of red vapor. So, it is to be able to recover their bodies, and the resistance wasn't a a government, so they could use extremely powerful guns, without a lashback from civilians, because most suport them. If Stormtroopers had powerful blasters, then there would be even more riots. And, in a book that takes place in the clones wars, some Clone Commandos had a black armor, that when a grenade went off into a crowd of civilians, one jumped on it, and though there was some smoke, he wasn't effected at all. That same clone wearing the same armor, also was hit with a flame thrower, and was not effected.

So, the armor is good against normal blasters, and it is possible to make very expensive ones, that are very protective.