What makes a carrier a carrier part II

  Pete wrote

  One person mentioned that a Carrier is any ship whose Fighter
  Bay mass exceeds 1/2 of the available system mass.  I also remember
  someone saying that a Carrier is a ship whose Fighter Bay mass exceeds
  1/2 of the damage boxes.

 
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  The only time these two should vary is if you are using a merchant
hull
  to fit a carrier bay to, but of
  course you can't as merchants can only carry level 1 shield, PDAF, C
  batterries and/or Submunitions!

  On a militery vessel 1/2  the available system mass should equal 1/2
the
  damage boxes. (As both
  are 1/2 the actual ship mass).

  Alan