Why don't storm troopers shoot bullets?

[Camera]

I wonder if the lightsaber "beam" has similar traits to the "lasers" from blasters...

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[ultimamax]

Star Wars is more fantasy than scifi.

Hence "A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away". Star Wars isn't some future of our civilization, it's a completely different galaxy.

So they don't necessarily have guns or gunpowder.

[Gojira]

Star Wars is more fantasy than scifi.

Hence "A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away". Star Wars isn't some future of our civilization, it's a completely different galaxy.

So they don't necessarily have guns or gunpowder.

they actually do have slugthrowers, such as powder muskets. these were not pursued to the same degree as the more powerful blasters and are therefore used by more primitive tribes, such as the tusken raiders.
and as i said before, a jedi could easily stop a hail of bullets with the force, as all they really need to sense is the disturbance in the air. more powerful force users are forces to be reckoned with. they are quite literally capable of tearing apart an army single-handedly.

idk if im just rambling on here so take everything that isnt a direct response to ultimamax with a sizeable grain of salt as it is 12am and more importantly my personal opinion

ok im just rambling ill stop now

[Rally]

How do you dodge 10 soldiers firing at different moments

Same way they dodge/deflect 10 soldiers firing at different moments with blasters. They don't. They'd die. You guys think Jedi are invisible against blasters, they're not, they're just usually a step ahead. This is why we don't arm the entire Imperial Army with expensive gay ballistic weapons, because the blaster works just loving fine.

Using the force isn't just a combat booster. It comes with the power to detect bad situations before they happen. A competent Jedi wouldn't end up surrounded by 10 soldiers with blasters just as they probably wouldn't easily get into a tactically disadvantageous position against a soldier armed with a ballistic weapon.

[Lord Tony®]

Starwars isn't the Matrix. No Jedi could act like Neo.

[Rally]

Ballistic/gunpowder weapons were used pretty often in the SW universe. Qymaen jai Sheelal used slugthrowers all the time because of how (canonically) effective they were against Jedi. Rapid fire ballistic guns were used by mercs and bounty hunters all the time to forget up Jedi because they couldn't be deflected and they knew it.

The difference is that those bounty hunters and mercenaries work on an infinitely smaller level and fund themselves. The stormtroopers weren't at war with the Jedi, they were at war with the rebels. Yes, it would be beneficial to use a rapid fire slugthrower against Jedi. However it would be handicapped to give every storm trooper in the empire a loving firearm because it would only be tactically advantageous like 0.01% of the time. The weapons they use would depend on the tactical advantage. A good example of this would be Stormtroopers using ballistic weapons on Haruun Kal, due to the jungle atmosphere causing unreliability in blasters.

There's a million reasons why storm troopers could find usefulness in ballistic weapons but there's an equal amount of reasons why they just simply don't need it. The stormtroopers were made to serve the galactic empire and keep massive systems in line. They are not specifically geared to hunt and kill Jedi, so there's no reason to exclusively arm them with Jedi hunting equipment.