Carriers are really used by players... but the docking modules only allow 1 player to dock and rarely that happens. This idea will bring them an oportunity against those snubs torpedo spammers... and also, will make those crazy pilots to think it twice before attack for fun a "big fish" because they can... hahahaha.
And personally i think the code would not be hard. Its pretty similar when an admin spawn some nomads NPCs around with a command...