[member="Jack Rand"], [member="Friedrich Stahlmann"] (for the sake of awareness)
Not sure how it would work out ICly in what way? You mean as far as firing on each other and -not- inflicting lethal damage? Energy weapons can be lowered to a setting such that they cause no real damage and the targeted ship merely registers a hit.
Physical munitions such as slugs fired from mass drivers, and even an HVC, can be made with material that lacks any penetrating power. Alternatively they could simple have tiny transmitters at the end of each barrel that fires off signals to the targeted ship in much the same fashion. Onboard computers could calculate damage based off of a preselected material, angle of impact, and other such attributes.
If you mean as far as why we would be getting together to do so, I think a lot of that has already been run over between higher ups in both factions.
We could do the training in the current thread, or we could make an entirely new one. Again, Republic's choice.