Jared imho this is a bit different to carriers
its more like how a tugboat drags along larger boats or how a towtruck pulls cars along than it is having planes land on a carrier or small boats dock with a larger ship
I like the idea of maybe having specialized FTL drives on larger ships that can send out a sort of leyline of FTL energy to drag along smaller ships, but ships that are too large to make a proper carrier out of
it would coincide with carriers, but it is not exactly the same and maybe dedicated, cheap tugships could become something good for future campaign usage whenever that comes out