Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Blade Runner: Black Lotusepisodes 1 & 2.
The first episodes of Blade Runner: Black Lotus reveal a significant change to the franchise's established timeline regarding replicants' legal status and evolution. Most of the material bridging the gap between the first Blade Runner movie and Blade Runner 2049 suggested a lengthy period of Prohibition, during which replicants were completely illegal on both Earth and the off-world colonies. However, some
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