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				 Re: Organic armor or shields? 
 Actually, the crystal weapons only skip armor.  There's a Temporal weapon that skips both, and the Null-Space weapon skips both.  Interestingly, the Temporal and Null-Space weapon will also skip phased shields.  The Phased-Polaron Beam will only skip normal shields.
 I've also noticed that most of the component-specific weapons (engine damagers, weapon damagers, etc.) will skip shields (both regular and phased) also; but I don't think they skip armor.
 
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