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From: jsc@sun.uucp (James Carrington)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Decline and fall of the StarWars Empire
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 15:46:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 15:46:41 1985
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>On this silly subject, what did the armour in Star Wars ever do? All I
>can recall is that it provided comm facilities, blast protection for
>the eyes, and looked funky. Did any armour *ever* turn a shot? What's

If you look carefully, or have the aid of a slo-mo button on your vcr, you
can see a shot bounce off the helmets of two Rebel defenders aboard Leia's
courier ship, before ricocheting into a wall in SW I (or IV, actually). 
That's the only instance I know off, and note that it happens with the
/lightly\ armored rebels, not the almost-encased imperials.

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