Nerve Disruptor

Name:	Nerve Disruptor
Type:	Weapon

Details

The nerve disruptor is an energy weapon with a distinctive bell-shaped emitter that fires a blue coloured energy bolt.

It is an anti-personnel weapon available from hand-held form up to cannon-grade. It does not damage inanimate objects.

As the name says, the principle behind the weapon is that it disrupts the nerves in a living organism and, in the process, destroys them.

Depending on the location and intensity of the hit, damage from nerve disruptor fire can result in anything from loosing all "feeling" in the affected area to loss of motor-control or the loss of all higher brain function. A hit on the head or the base of the neck (brainstem) is usually fatal.

A nerve disruptor hit leaves no outer marks except for a slight blistering of the skin in the affected area.

Recently a limited defence against the nerve disruptor has been invented on Beta Colony: The nerve disruptor shield net.