It probably would have been both faster and cheaper to just buy a new carrier - GENOM, I'm sure, would have given the IPO a good deal on a brand new Venator-class Star Destroyer, for instance - but modern carriers are far larger than the old Hawkbats and require simply enormous crews, so the operating costs and problems with staffing would have outweighed the initial savings by quite a bit. And then, of course, there's sentimentality to consider...

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