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   "CptainDan"  wrote in message   
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   > You know what ALWAYS drives me CRAZY?  As the rebels & Imps are blasting   
   > at   
   > each other aboard the TANTIVE, R2D2 & C3PO cross that hall la-de-dah, and   
   > with blaster fire going off ALL AROUND THEM, not ONE manages to hit them.   
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      Is it possible that "blasters" were originally not supposed to be   
   damaging to metal?  That seems like it could have been the point of   
   that exact scene.  The excessive back-and-forth blastings didn't seem   
   to take much toll on the interior of the Death Star.   
      
      
   Except that, when 3PO started to walk into that room on Cloud City (and saw   
   what he shouldn't have), he was blasted to pieces.  And it was clear that it   
   WAS a blaster, because we HEARD the sound of a blaster.   
      
      
   Not to mention that when the Jawas fire that 'energy weapon' at R2 on   
   Tattooine, it scrambles his circuits and knocks him out.   
      
      
   So obviously droids (and by extension, metal) are not immune to blaster fire   
   (unless, I suppose, they have individual force fields, which 3PO and R2   
   don't.  Who [n.N..] would waste the investment of money or time giving THEM   
   a protective force field for no foreseeable useful reason?)   
      
   Point is, here's heavy blaster fire going on ALL AROUND 3PO and R2.  Not ONE   
   shot hits them.  Yet it's sufficiently accurate to take out various rebels,   
   & stormtroopers, who are wearing protective armor (as for not damaging the   
   Death Star's interiors, I would assume that it was made of military-grade   
   materials; after all, heavy weapons fire or a torpedo can fatally damage a   
   commercial vessel, like the LUSITANIA, yet a naval vessel, like the   
   BISMARCK, built with heavy military-grade armor plating and side & deck   
   protection designed to withstand enemy fire, would shrug off the same damage   
   which took out the commercial vessel easily.  The Death Star would have been   
   DESIGNED to take enemy fire.  The TANTIVE wouldn't, or would have very   
   limited protection, probably not sufficient in the case of armed boarders.   
   Recall that one blast from a star destroyer took out her engines with ease.   
   Same way a capital ship easily would ANY merchantman).   
      
      
      
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   --Acolyte of Glorious La Parka~---Has apparently WAY too much time on his   
   hands tonight.   
      
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