Like many snubfighters of the age, the Jedi Starfighter
was too small to include a built-in hyperdrive, so an
alternative had to be found for the many Jedi who
worked individually on missions across the galaxy; the
Syluire-31 hyperspace booster ring was it.
Created by TransGalMeg in the Rayter sector, the
hyperspace booster ring - also known as a 'transport'
or 'docking' ring - was basically a class 1.0 hyperdrive
fitted to a spherical cradle. With the booster ring
attached, a Jedi starfighter's hyperspace capability had
an operational range of 150,000 light years. The
starfighter would dock with the booster ring, allowing it to enter hyperspace, and would seperate from the module upon reversion to realspace.
Many of the TransGalMeg booster rings were used by the Jedi Order for their Delta-7 starfighters prior to and during the Clone Wars. The Jedi Temple maintained a series of booster rings above Coruscant, in assigned orbits to allow for a fast response. The astromech droid which travelled along with the Jedi starfighter was equipped to preform hyperspace calculation and navigation when the ship was docked with a booster ring. Around the time of the Galactic Civil War, most snubfighters carried hyperdrives or were transported by cruisers, so hyperspace transport rings were no longer needed. Indeed, many of the later models of the Jedi starfighter came equipped with a hyperdrive. The booster ring was quickly rendered obsolete. |
