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Originally Posted by Pbuckley
The official lore is that Storm Trooper armor disperses the energy in such a way that it turns otherwise lethal blows into knockout blows. It's dumb but it's what the lore says. It's easily mass produced armor that ensures you can almost always redeploy the soldier in question. (At least in theory)
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In Rogue one we have one trooper being repeatedly hit by fire when being used as a human shield, and repeatedly making pained noises, so it is clear he wasn't being killed by the impacts, but that he was being injured in some way, which would fit with this.
But then the same film also had them being taken out by a guy with a stick, so... yeah, really it is just cinematic amour which does exactly what it needs to for the demands of the plot.