[dogscoff]

Just a a side note, when a fighter is launched from a carrier, does it take it's supplies from the carrier's store? When it docks with a carrier, do it's supplies get added back to the carrier's?

If that's the case you could build a "resupply fighter". You could warp into a system, launch a stack of these and send them to a resupply depot, then have them rendezvous with the carrier on the exit warp point.