Tyrell Corporation / TYRELCORP

Located in the midst of a vast industrial landscape, the Tyrell Corporation’s headquarters dominates the Los Angeles skyline with its two immense pyramid structures.

The company was named after its founder and CEO, Dr. Eldon Tyrell , whose genius in the areas of biotechnology had advanced robot evolution into what was known as the NEXUS phase — creating a genetically engineered biological android known as the Replicant.

As of 2919, the company’s most advanced model was the NEXUS-6. Living up to the company’s motto, “More Human Than Human,” these Replicants were virtually indistinguishable from a human, and equal in intellect to their creators, while possessing superior strength, speed, agility and resilience. To control them, in an extreme act of planned obsolescence, they were also created with a limited lifespan of four years.

All Replicants were bound for the Off-world colonies, where they were used as slave labor and soldiers. They were banned on planet Earth, outside of Tyrell facilities, after exhibiting a dangerous tendency to rebellion.