Rifleman Archive

Well, I've played rifleman quite a bit as a human, with an ALR. I'm thinking of re-rolling one of my characters and going to wookie with a bowcaster, assuming i can find somoene to make me a crazy bowcaster. One reason is for the kinetic damage, among others that dont relate to rifleman.. with there being so many jedi around now, i wanted to make sure before doing this that jedi dont take less kinetic damage than energy. I would assume they would take more kinetic(most wear energy psgs), but is there anything that protects from kinetic damage? Also, many pvpers who arent jedi have their armor high energy/low kinetic, so i imagine it would help for those suckers.
What kind of stuff do bowcasters require, is it the same as ALR's, high krayt tissues? Same Dam/Sac caps? I really don't want to do this and then get screwed over