Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase -- a being virtually identical to a human -- known as a replicant. The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-world colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth -- under penalty of death. Special police squads -- BLADE RUNNER UNITS -- had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicants.
This was not called execution. It was called retirement.
I think Blade Runner went a long way toward getting me to accept LA as my new home. There are parts of downtown Los Angeles that definitely throw off that dirty retro-futurish street scene.
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into the NEXUS phase -- a being virtually identical to a human -- known as a
replicant. The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility,
and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created
them. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous
exploration and colonization of other planets. After a bloody mutiny by a
NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-world colony, Replicants were declared illegal
on earth -- under penalty of death. Special police squads -- BLADE RUNNER
UNITS -- had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing
Replicants.
This was not called execution.
It was called retirement.
LOS ANGELES
NOVEMBER, 2019
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