Slugthrowers is the name the Star Wars universe uses for guns, meaning Stormtrooper armor is at the very least resistant to guns. In the new Star Wars short story anthology From a Certain Point of View, it is revealed that all Imperial military personnel—including stormtroopers—had their pay adjusted to correspond with their firing accuracy.
The Stormtrooper armour is designed to spread the energy of a hit throughout his body, knocking him out rather than killing him. We know Star Wars lasers give off a bit of splash damage.
Not only were the instructors familiar with the armor, its versatility and lethal capabilities were already known galaxy wide. While the movie watching public first witnessed a female Stormtrooper during A Force Awakens with the introduction of Captain Phasma, there has been no lack of females among the Stormtrooper ranks.
While the original clone army was purely male, as the Empire moved to conscripted warriors, women were accepted. According to Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks , a Rebels junior novel, females would be pooled into their own units. Once donning their armor though, it is impossible to differentiate them among other troopers.
While there have been varying design configurations of Stormtrooper armor, the most famous remains that of A New Hope. The iconic white armor was the Empire's first step towards increased uniformity and loyalty post the Clone Wars. This new armor was designed as an improvement of the Phase II Clone Trooper armor, and was composed of 18 overlapping panels, as well as two boots. The individual panels are made out of plastoid composite plates. Along with the boots, this plate arrangement was chosen for increased mobility.
Although Stormtrooper armor would change throughout the years, this plate arrangement would see little variation. Along with the traditional 18 pieces of armor that would make up the Stormtrooper's iconic plate arrangement, each individual would wear a black body glove underneath.
Beyond sealing the wearer's body against the outside environment and creating a vacuum seal, which would make the entire armor airtight, the body glove also had an internal temperature apparatus. As such, Sandtroopers would not have to worry about the sweltering heat, as their bodies would always be cool. The same would go for any Stormtrooper, as the system would keep them either warm, cool, or pleasantly humid as the situation and climate would dictate.
So next time you see a slew of Stormtroopers being sucked up into the void when a ship losses vacuum, just know that they have a 20 minute window to get saved. Without any Leia "Mary Poppins flying through space" type of plot shenanigans. The true genius of George Lucas's "Star Wars" phenomenon wasn't just the movies.
The genius of his plan was the complete and total investment into licensing -- the crown jewel of this being the toy division. With any idea as successful as the Star Wars toy line, you have to come up with ways to stretch out your product. There was no better way of doing this than creating specialized Stormtrooper armor for specific extreme environmental conditions.
Not only did this add a flare to the enemy troopers, it also opened the imagination to countless special forces. Part of the advantages of having your army wearing high protective but cumbersome armor is the ability to integrate systems that would otherwise be impossible in a uniform. The armor then, is much more than just protection against enemy fire, it is also protection from the environment.
While there are specialized armor configurations designed for the harshest of conditions, all Stormtrooper helmets had a built-in filtration system to make inhospitable atmosphere breathable. This effectively made Stormtroopers invulnerable to most types of chemical attacks, as well as allowing them to navigate low oxygen terrains or areas with a high degree of manufacturing produced toxic gasses.
While Stormtrooper shot accuracy can be a subject of ridicule given their poor performance throughout some of the films, they are nevertheless highly trained marksmen. This would make then almost supernaturally deadly. As an example of the dedication Stormtroopers devote to their marksmanship, some troopers use a left knee plate to allow them to crouch and aim.
This added piece of armor brings with it added mobility restriction, but shows the price they are willing to pay to be ruthless tool in assuring the Empire's rule across the galaxy. Given how Stormtrooper training can be vigorous and robust, it's no surprise that they are excellent athletes. Yet, even with all that athletic prowess and years of instruction, there are limitations.
One such limitation is mobility, as Stormtrooper armor is clearly a detriment. To offset this, Stormtrooper armor is created knowing that at some point the wearer will take a hit. Thus, the armor was designed to withstand and deflect blaster fire. Unlike a regular plate, the Stormtrooper armor will effectively absorb a blast and dissipate it. This spreads out the concussive force of the blast across a wider area, lessening its deadliness and providing the trooper a greater chance of survival.
While we know that Stormtrooper armor is designed to dissipate and deflect blaster fire, that doesn't mean the soldier under the armor couldn't use a bit of added protection. During the height of the Galactic Empire, the standard-issue helmet included a rubber guard strip that acted as the border between the face and the cranium of the helmet.
The cranium "shell" portion of the helmet was made of plasteel, and contained osmotic filter plates on the sides and back of the helmet. The rear osmotic filters contained heat-dispersion vents. The front of the helmet contained a pair of Soldex automatic polarizing filters.
The characteristic frown on the helmets acted as natural air vents. In addition, heat-dispersion vents were located near the Soldex filters. Dymak Exhaust Filters were likewise located near the rim of the helmet. The vocoder direct speaker interface was on the "chin" of the helmet, between two Bliar induction filters. Near the back of the helmet was a auto-seal conduit. On the sides of the helmet were auditory sensors, which were connected to a lateral conduit housing.
Inside the helmet was a ComTech Series IV speaker system within the auditory sensor, which was equipped with a three-phase Sonic motivator and was connected via power conduits to atmospheric processing units, which included a Motivator sending unit and ventral power units.
In the ventral area of the helmet's interior, the edges were lined with Reifflex cellular padding. The interior of the helmet's faceplate contained a voice-activator housing, and the user would speak via a ComTech sensa-mic.
The same equipment also came with a dermal cross link. The equipment was between two Atmospheric transduction nozzles, which connected the Bliar filters to the atmospheric processing units. Various sensors, specifically those relating to threat targeting, were also incorporated into the helmet, although these were only active when its designated owner wore the helmet, as a security measure to ensure they could not be used by their enemies, as well as reducing the uniform's value on the black market.
These features included filters that screened out chemical and biological contaminants, heat-dispersal vents that maintained a consistent temperature, polarized lenses that collected non-visual data for display on the helmet's holographic head-up display as well as adjusting for various environmental conditions i.
However, Rebel Alliance member Wedge Antilles implied that the visual sensors for stormtrooper helmets had blind spots. The helmet also contained an IFF transponder readout that allowed a stormtrooper to identify his squadmates.
Over time, the helmets evolved and implemented new technology. For example, earlier models included only simple eye lenses with very few visual modes available, such as infrared and standard targeting systems, but as technology increased, the helmets began to feature more advanced visual targeting systems including:. By ABY , stormtrooper helmets included updated sensors. The helmet's appearance was slightly modified to appear as a cross between the Phase II clone trooper armor and the original stormtrooper helmets.
A number of variations were also introduced to accommodate alien species that were newly allowed to enroll in the Stormtrooper Corps. Still, stormtrooper helmets shared a very common difficulty. A helmet needed to be powered by using a general code provided by a central system. This was meant to prevent piracy or stealing of helmets.
By doing this, if for any reason the helmet was stolen, the thief could not be able to access any of the visual modes of the helmet, making it very difficult to see through it. A comlink with frequency-changing options was built into the trooper's helmet. The comlink used linked encoding sequences to rotate frequencies every few seconds while keeping all troopers in the unit synchronized. If a trooper's helmet was removed without the trooper first hitting the comlink's control stud most likely found on the under-rim of the helmet , the frequency coding routine was automatically deleted from that helmet.
The Comtech Series IV helmet speaker used three-phase sonic filtering for clear sound [5] for troopers, it was connected to the audio pickup. It also had a vocoder for talking to non-stormtroopers. Video recorders were included in some helmets. The backplate of the standard armor contained a power pack as well as a small supply of air see above. These backpacks would contain: [5]. Stormtrooper armor proving ineffectual against blaster fire in The Empire Strikes Back.
Stormtrooper armor as portrayed in the films is highly ineffective as combat protection and is generally hindering to the wearer.
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