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Deals crippling existential damage to one being. Indiscrete use of this spell may provoke economic sanctions.

Duration: 20 turns
Stacks 3 times

Damage:

( 9 + 0.45 )

Secondary effects:

-3  -3  -3  -3 

-10 

+20 

Trivia

The name is a reference to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, in which nerve stapling suppress all riots in a city. Other civilizations, however, will regard this as an atrocity, resulting in numerous sanctions and relation hits with some factions.