That's because the concept isn't new, and from physics point of view that acceleration path is one of the very few options available to generate sufficient acceleration.
The only other options commonly used are to either make the mass driver longer or to impart even more acceleration on the...
Fortunately or unfortunately for the intended story, those missiles would already be dead... as they were not maintained for likely literal decades or more.
All military hardware have shelf live span, if they were not constantly maintained or refurbished periodically... they basically will...
Elite doesn't really have a gate to begin with and the beacon is ... well it's just a beacon, and in EVE while that's true for the low sec that is not under control of any major corporate... the high sec area is somewhat akin to what she is describing where committing a transgression would lead...
@Rayodino to be fair, prisoner exchange in our medieval history is similar...
Knights? Royalties? oh sure... they'll be captured alive if possible because they can be ransomed for hefty funds... if not exchanged for someone of similar worth.
Peasants and ordinary people? Yeah... the chance of...
probably because in a lot of dystopian or post apocalypse science fiction or science fantasy, soylent green scenario is more common than they probably should because well.. it's an easy subject (almost on the level of a bad cliché) to establish big bad company/government/race etc...
Granted...
@Solipsist to be fair, the common sense approach when lacking for information is to not wade in without one...
Backing off, and trying to gather more information before going back in is more often than not the prudent course in life.
It's the same reason why the standard action that modern...