since almost no one uses docking modules in this game (at least I think I saw it being used just once, and that was for a snub to pass through some omicron system full of nomads), why not make this carrier the civ explorer, since carriers are used as battleships, and leave the corvo as it is? or then why dont you take that useless q-ship, that is based on a transport hull, and make it the civ explorer since that makes more sense than the corvo that has a much more advanced design and therefore would be much more costly to build, while a transport-hull based ship would me much cheaper...
EDIT: I would like to know how many people really uses docking modules here... Much more 5... I'm curious.
EDIT2: and makes much more sense for an explorer ship to have a couple docking bays to launch some auxiliary ships, and even a jump drive to travel to new systems...