What do you think is the best carrier out of these? There is the ISD with the most squadron command, but then you can't optimize on the front arc as easily or as cheaply as it seems like it was made to make use of its huge front arc, and it still is quite expensive just by it self. Then there is the VSD which is cheaper with almost as many squad command and suffers from seriously bad maneuverability. Or you could use a gonzonti with some fleet support upgrades but it is pretty fragile. For the empire the best multirole carrier hands down is the VSD with hanger bays at quad turbo lasers....they are just all around more multirole in my opinion. I agree with the VSD being the best multirole ship but would opt for boosted comms over expanded hangars; with VSDs slowing down early mid game to try keeping ships in arcs etc i find that squadrons can over extend and just fall out of mid range and having a long range bubble of influence helps for pulling squads back in or extending the effective range of your rhymer ball. Expanded bays are fantastic but i just seem to get more milage out of that long range command.