Having played a bunch of games now as tec and vasari even at the highest difficulty i honestly havent experienced this.
My solution to a carrier focused assault as vasari is to fly my starbase right in the middle of the carriers. So far ive experienced the long range missile cuisers to be a bigger threat. Tec bombers even when massed dont do all too much damage to starbases.
Vasari does have dedicated anti fighter corvettes and some of their cruisers also come with point defense