Hunter-seeker

An assassination device that floats in mid-air; kills by entering the body and following nerve pathways to vital organs. (Read the full article)

"It is interesting that the hunter-seeker follows nerve tracks. In this manner it mimics the rabies virus (as Herbert must have known) which, from the site of an animal bite, retrogrades along nervous tissue until it reaches the brain, afflicting its host with insanity before killing it. "
(BR Bogle 2/13/2005 8:28:02 AM )

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