Maybe have them similar to railjacks from Warframe in that their squadron built but player owned best of both worlds right there make it even more personal we emblazon a deceased pets name on the hull if that’s your thing. As their big ships their guns should match and if we wanted to go starblazers we could have gun crews manning when your focused on flying. How I’m seeing this is you pick from a selection of carriers used only at a dock outside the squadron hq squadron gathers the mats to build the carrier aswell as a credit cost tapped from the squadron storage it takes a certain amount of irl time to build one of these beasts which varies depending on the ship your transferring as it will be stored on the carrier upon completion. Once the carrier the member picked is made they are notified in the squadron mail from the carrier shipyard that your captaincy is ready please come on board where a special tutorial to carrier controls is optional but recommended. This is followed by a reintroduction of starter zones since yeah you gonna need to know how to fight in these beasts