Yup, you can slice stormcarriors in half with a single pass of a Gerid. They can take a beating, dish out massive ammounts of death, and can fly close to fighter speeds. You can just ignore clouds of fighters, and the carrior's pta system would never deal enough damage to the cruiser to fend it off.
Carriors are flying fortresses, for attacking other baces.
Cruisers are carrior killers, but are not as good as carriors for handling adverse situations and bace attacks.
Fly the MK line of carriors if you want speed and utility/upgrade abilitys.
Best choose your side soon.