The Venator as a Rebel mobile base

A pair of Venators could carry the Rebel Alliance's basing facilities and two years of stores. Their operating costs would need to be compared with the weapons and infrastructure lost whenever the Empire destroyed a fixed planetary base. Faster-than-light fighters could launch from one position and recover at another after the carrier moved, frustrating attempts to trace them home. A mobile carrier could also recover resources from uninhabitable worlds, widening the range of possible refuges beyond inhabited planets. Capturing a Venator from a pirate warlord could give the Rebels cover while Imperial forces continued hunting the pirates and the captured ship rearmed elsewhere.