The Begining...
The film begins with a scrolling prologue about escaped slaves that are now considered android adversaries:
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 Replicant.
This was not called execution.
It was called retirement.
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A POEM FOR AN ANDROID
Time to die
I look in the eyes of my death
what I see there is an ancient world crying
where millions of stars are burning and singing
an angels of fire are dancing with flowers,
I´m sitting above
a thousand million stars,and God out there
look inside of my eyes
like a serpent of gold
inside millions of fires.
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