User blog comment:So-Pro Warrior/Season 1-Battle 8: Battle of the two Forces of Good Armies: The Systems Alliance vs. The Grand Army of the Repubic/@comment-5795750-20130330064503/@comment-4552610-20130331161536

I'm with Geo here. The weapons that the Republic have on their ships will thear through the Alliance ships while the Alliance won't even be able to hurt the GAR ships. It's a situation of Kinetic Barriers vs Deflectors Shields and Deflector shields win by a mile.