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[Star Wars] What happens when someone gets hit by a blaster bolt?

I have been doing some research lately to try and answer the aforementioned question: what is the effect on someone who gets hit by a blaster bolt? For the purposes of the question, let's say the bolt is hitting bare flesh, not armor of some kind. 

Are blasters just made out of the same stuff as lightsabers, and therefore go right through the flesh? Is it just a heavy hit, like getting struck by a rapidly moving solid object? 

And how is it that armor of any kind would be able to protect against these bolts?
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Depends on what you have it set to, kind of like the Dominator in Psycho-Pass.  Various levels of pain like the trainer droid Luke fights while on the Millennium Falcon.  Various levels of stun for the various types of beings in the galaxy, various levels of kill, fire blasters, blasters that use tibanna gas as ammo and are really more of a pulsegun, lasguns, etc.

Armor can be ablative, so it is just stuff in the way meant to evaporate when hit.  It can be reflective material, it can be stuff like cortosis weave which is really really good at dissipating heat and shorting out lightsabers, it can just be insanely strong/dense metal, etc.
Or, yknow, personal shield devices.