Tyrell Corporation
The Tyrell Corporation is a business that features in Blade Runner.
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History
The Tyrell Corporation was a world spanning company that formed on Earth. In the early part of the 21st Century, the Corporation was responsible for designing a new series of advanced robots that evolved into organic machines that were the NEXUS phase that became known as Replicants.
In November 2019, Blade Runner Rick Deckard visited the Tyrell Corporation to administer a Voight-Kampff test to Rachael, an experimental replicant and Tyrell's assistant.
Roy Batty, the leader of a group of escaped replicants, later convinced J.F. Sebastian, a genetic engineer with the company, to bring him to Tyrell's quarters at the top of the building, on the pretense of a chess move in an ongoing game between him and Tyrell. It was there that Batty killed Tyrell after he said he had no way to extend his life.
In 2020, the Tyrell Corporation developed the Nexus-8 line of replicants, who possessed lifespans equal to that of human beings. Because of this, humanity declared the replicants a threat to its existence and started hunting them down en-masse.
In 2022, an EMP was detonated on Earth leading to the events of the Blackout that caused havoc on the planet. A great deal of destruction impacted the world with digital records were lost. By the next year, all production of Replicants were prohibited leading to the collapse of the Tyrell Corporation. In 2025, a new company emerged named as Wallace Corp headed by Niander Wallace that solved the global food crisis and becomes a massive power. It took over the assets of Tyrell and generated a new line of Replicants leading to prohibition over their creation being repealed by 2030.
Overview
Commerce was the central goal of the Tyrell Corporation.
The motto of the company was, "More human than human".
As of 2019, the corporation was headquartered in two large, pyramid-like structures on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Inclinators ran along the outside of the massive structures.
Employees
- Eldon Tyrell : founder, head and chief scientist of the corporation.
- J. F. Sebastian : a male genetic designer who worked on some projects for the corporation and close colleague to Dr. Eldon Tyrell.
Notes
- The Tyrell Corporation was created by Ridley Scott and featured in the setting of Blade Runner.
- The company was based on the Rosen Association in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
In other media
Comic Books
- In A Marvel Comics Super Special: Blade Runner v1 #1 (1982), the Tyrell Corporation appeared in the setting of the comic adaptation of the film written by Archie Goodwin and published by Marvel Comics. It identified Dr. Herman Schlect as being the vice president of the Tyrell Corporation.
RPGs
Appearances
- Blade Runner:
- Blade Runner 2049:
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