It need not be anything too fancy, reading the last few posts I was reminded of the Dick Francis novel 'Trial Run', in that novel the killers are using a powerful animal tranquilizer (that has muscle relaxing properties.) mixed with a skin penetrating agent. The victims muscles (including the ones operating the lungs and heart.) relax so much that they stop working.

On Thursday, 26 April 2018, 7:12:54 am AWST, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Rob O'Connor <xxxxxx@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

The purpose made neuromuscular blocking drugs (curare derivatives, aminosteroids, succinylcholine) can only be given by injection.

How about injectors built into a cloud of nanobots? Those 'bots which make it inside any particular victim network with each other (possibly using the victim's own nervous system?), evaluate the dose needed to effect him/her and then deliver that *exact* dose.

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester (fictional monster hunter portrayed by Jensen Ackles)

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.

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