As someone reading the NJO series and also prepping to run my first game of SWSE I was very surprised to find that the Vonduun Crab Armor is weaker than most other armors when it comes to avoiding laserfire, lightsaber attacks, getting stabbed, and being by with explosives. It's better for resisting stuff like poisons and the like though.
This feels really odd to me since in most novels the armor is described as being exceedingly strong and hard to pierce with blasterfire and jedi can't even cut it with lightsabers, instead finding gaps in the armor.
I fail to see how a designer could look at that and decide that stormtrooper armor is more likely to keep someone alive. Even in the novels, most other armors don't hold up well under sustained fire.
I'm not running any Yuuzhan Vong in my game most likely but I have a hard time wrapping my head around how Vonduun Crab Armor ended up as good as an armored flightsuit.
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Lots of Vong hate among rpg writers.