Will there be an actual pocket carrier sold?

Why? You guys enjoy theorycrafting, turning every ship we create into a pocket carrier. We're talking about the Endeavor, and people are already talking about converting the Endeavor into a pocket carrier.

It does have a pod bay.

Yes, but it's every ship in the game people want to convert into a pocket carrier. I don't understand it.

Anything that we'd let you do that on, you're not going to be coming out ahead on that. You're not going to be having a bunch of guns and be a pocket carrier. Guess how much you have to lose, how much you're going to sacrifice, to try and do this less effectively than a role-dedicated ship would be doing that.