How do you get to the soft chewy center of a Tootsie Roll pop? Or how do Imperial pilots get into the Bomber so they can fight all those enemies of the Empire? By climbing up a boarding ladder through the bottom of the manned hull. The TIE Bomber is nominally one pilot but there is a passenger jump seat available in the pressurized section behind the pilot. This allows the Bomber to be configured for a number of rolls by installing different equipment packs. Installing a chemical fresher and supply storage allows the ship to take on long-range ambush and covert observation assignments. The jump seat can be used to ferry single passengers when required or if stowed upright, the bomber could be used as an impromptu recovery ship carrying three additional people under emergency conditions. With small hardened storage cases, the Bomber could also make emergency supply drops with a second crewmember simply dropping the cases through the open hatches. Imperial crews were very inventive when it came to utilizing the jump seat, with off-duty 'jumps' between personnel occurring in the Bomber's 'backside' as it was affectionately called.