I have a geodatabase with ~1000 rasters that I want to render with the same symbology.  I have a script that (1) imports the rasters into an mxd and (2) applies a template symbology to the raster layers within the mxd.

However, I want to be able to send the geodatabase to other people so that when they add the raster data from the geodatase into an mxd, they will have the same symbology. From what I have read, layer files are associated with mxd or outside geodatabases. 

Is this possible, and if so, how can I do it?