^Nah come on with Lucas, whom admittedly had many faults regarding the direction of the old EU, there was at least logical reasons written the films. In new Canon they made the fan meme canon, which is just silly.

Edit: I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how pre Disney Star Wars operated. While technically speaking the entirety of the EU was “canon” George Lucas, much to the chagrin of the fans, really only considered the 6 movies as the Definition Star Wars timeline. Thus the Term Lucas Canon, which is different from what is now known as Legends Canon.

@Snowskeeper I'm sure it's been addressed before, but Stormtroopers don't really deserve their reputation for accuracy - but we all know this, so I'm not going to get into it. I'll save the "Actually..." comments for people who don't have more than a cursory understanding of Star Wars.

I'm asking a lot of this because I'm prepping for a Star Wars RPG campaign and I want to explore the various options that might be available for my players. At present, I'm looking at using GURPS for the system, so any opportunity I can grant my players to defer the lethality of the system is beneficial.

^You know there is an official Star Wars RPG that you can look into.

@FlashFloodNinja yeah but I think that advertising it is against the rules but if you want to check the official RPG here you go.

http://www.theberserker.net/berserker/sw/rule_books/SW_Saga_Edition_Core_Rulebook.pdf

@Diamond O'Connel

I'm aware of that, believe it or not. But we're talking about the guy who went back, changed events in his own films, and then made the originals virtually impossible to find. That was more the sort of stuff I was talking about, although if you look around there are a lot of examples of him being a lot more flippant about the lore of even the original six movies than the people around him.

(To be clear I do not think that this flexibility is a bad thing; I think it's a big part of what allowed Star Wars to grow into what it is now.)

Wasn't there a version of that game that also included information/playable statistics for stuff from the Old Republic era, or am I misremembering?

^Ah buddy the Special Editions? Really? That’s what you’re talking about? Pretty much the only lore thing he changed in those was that he made Greedo shoot first. That didn’t destroy continuity. Was it bad? Yes absolutely. Was it money grab? Probably so. But it’s not lore breaking.

@Diamond O'Connel Thank you, I am aware of the three existing Star Wars RPGs. I simply wanted to try and take a deeper approach to the whole thing - and I'm sitting on $300 of GURPS books from Christmas so I really should make the most of them!

^Oh no certainty go for it, especially if you already got the material.

For armour: We see in rebels when Ezra attacks stormtroopers with his energy slingshot it doesn’t work - I think stormtrooper armour just protects from light shrapnel and low power energy weapons available to the general public ( not direct his from blasters)

For shields: In the star wars book (I think it is here) it states that shields can emit dangerous radiation but some types (I.e. gungan plasma shields) behave differently and can be used by organic at a personal level but aren’t very effective. Droidekas some this issue by being mechanical making them immune to that type of radiation. Ships can also facilitate the radiation shielding as they are much larger.

1. Plastoid which is used for the stormtrooper and clone armor I assume is similar to plastic so naturally it would not conduct the energy.

2. You see no full armor. In something like halo’s sparred armor could make the shield kinda like… on the armor’s surface.

3. Since it’s probably expense having durasteel armor on troops, probably production of the shields.

And I have NO idea about the sw battlefront game’s explanation