[Fyron]

I actually meant the USS Enterprise as in Nuclear Aircraft Carrier. That bugger is 70kt, and can't launch a B-52! Of course, we have atmospheric concerns, but still.... In terms of scale, fighters are drastically smaller than their targets. They get this by being incredibly frangible & non warp capable, of course.

An aircraft carrier is significanly smaller than a decent sized starship. Light carriers are able to carry 20 to 30 fighters or so. This seems like a good amount to me. Fighters being 15-25 kT is just for purposes of placing components on them. They do not really "weigh" that amount of tonnage.

I'd also like to see fighters destroyed when resources reach 0. Is that possible to implement now?

I am not certain, but I think units (in space, not in cargo) sometimes get scrapped when you run out of resources, which makes no sense, as they cost none to support... maybe it was a bug that was fixed, I don't remember. But either way, whether this happens or not is not moddable.