System defense boats have no jump drives and are incapable of interstellar flight. To enable the transfer of these gunboats to systems in need of them, a jump shuttle has been produced which carries fuel and jump drives for such transfers. One jump shuttle is provided for each ten system defense boats, in situations where interstellar capability is required.
The Imperial Transportation Command adopts a lot of private standard container ships
as military transport ships. The 400dt private standard container ships which is able to
transport a 200dt standard container rack. The 200dt SDBs is equipped with a connection mechanism similar to this standard container rack. During the war, the Imperial Navy is able to recruit large quantities of private 400dt transports and deploy SDBs where they needed them, in addition to their own military transport ships.
When mated, the two ships have access ways to allow intermingling of the crews of each ship. The primary problem with such connections is that a period of several hours is necessary to connect or disconnect the ship; the transport ship is not an ideal way to transfer SDBs to a system where there is action currently going on.
