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Carrier Hull Classifcation Overview
Carriers are the smallest of the capital warships. However its sheer size drawfs most battleships measuring at 2500 meters. Electronic stealthing is nearly nonexistent for ships these size clocking in at nearly 3000 meters on average making it porportionally one of the loudest ships in eve. Crewed nomrally by 18,000 people even pod technologies find some advantages here reducing the need down to nearly 750 personel, mostly the flight wing crew.
Appeal
Carriers have been joked as the swiss army knife of new eden in the hay days to which some has held over to these days still. Though they cannot sit in the wall like battleships can dreadnoughts can they can definetly reinforce the wall and make it stronger. Thier price tag is oftenly the cheapest of all capitol warships. Yet skills are significant investment as just as intense as the revenue investments, yet in a modern warfare envrionment most battlefleets can easily replace a carrier in days. Like most capital warships shes has to rely on jump drives in order to mobilize.
Roles
Carriers have functioned in many various roles and once upon a time was the premire ship of the fleet. Those days are gone with the arrival of titans and massive war building efforts infinitely quantifying them. Still even in this busy battlefield Carriers still found in its uses in station repairs and mobile ship patcher as well first reponse capitols as they're more 'disposable' to first engage any immediate action when larger ships may be just too risky to deploy. Carriers also enjoy a renewed life in wormhole space where super carriers are almsot prohibitive to deploy. A carrier can easily squeeze though wormholes and if support can remain there quite functional for extensive deployments.
Strengths
Carriers are quite flexible in thier function able to deploy swarms of different kinds of drones and fighters able to meet the needs of any battlefleet. Its Triage mode makes it a formidable repair base quickly patching holes ripped though smaller ships and reinforcign thier shields quickly. The telemtry links installed for feeding fighters information can be also tasked to feed information to a frinedly fleet making her a capable flagship. Its ability to help refit ships in space and provide spare ships for captains that lost thier ships is always useful and her generous cargo bay allows for transportation of goods.
Weaknesses
Like all capitol ships if caught alone a single battleship or interdictor can spell the doom for a solitary carrier by simply tackeling it and survivng the drone assult until reinforcements arrive. In recent times however the firepower carriers used to be able to bring to a fight has been laughed at as the super carriers simply dwarfs fighter capabilties. They are also easy targets for dreadnaughts and titans, titans oftenly pick carriers to sink with its doomday able to overwhelm the defenses easily enough. Thier destruction can be hard felt to pilots and the smaller fleet that host them.