Hyperdrive booster ring

Many Republic Starfighters are too small to safely contain a hyperdrive, so the ships must connect to a Hyperdrive booster ring. Usually powered by twin reactors and ion drives, the ring contains hypermatter, providing ballast for the attached starfighter during the jump to hyperspace. When traveling at hyperspeed, shields protect the ship from fatal collisions with interstellar gas and dark particles, while stasis fields adjust the passage of time, so that the pilot ages as fast as the rest of the galaxy.

For the Delta-7 Aethersprite Interceptor, Kuat Systems Engineering contracted TransGalMeg to provide the Sylieure-31 long-range Hyperdrive module. The Sylieure-31 provided an equivalent of class 1.0 performance with an operational range of 150,000 light years. Later, during the height of the Clone Wars, it was employed with various Republic starfighter models, including the Eta-2 Actis Interceptor and select V-wing starfighters. Variant models could be equipped with additional acceleration pods, increasing both their sublight and supralight speed. In all cases, once a hyperspace jump was complete, the starfighter disengaged from the booster ring, which remained anchored in space, awaiting the ship's return. This was seen as a vulnerability by some, for if the booster ring was destroyed, the starfighter would be stranded. Jedi Starfighters were equipped with adaptable long-range communication relays, which allowed the pilot to contact the Jedi Temple for assistance in these instances, but some Jedi modified their ships to contain ultra miniaturized hyperdrives, eliminating the vulnerability, at a cost to the hyperdrive's performance and range.