''Blade Runner Black Out 2022'' is a 2017 tech-noir

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directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and animated by

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. The short is one of three short films, (with '' 2036: Nexus Dawn'' and '' 2048: Nowhere to Run'') that serve as prequels to the live-action film '' Blade Runner 2049''. It debuted on 27 September 2017 on Crunchyroll.

Plot

Three years after the events of ''

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'', the Tyrell Corporation has developed the new Nexus-8 line of replicants. The models possess open-ended lifespans, like those of humans. Unrest ensues. A replicant named Trixie, is assaulted by human thugs. She is rescued by Iggy, a replicant ex-soldier from the planet Calanthe, who deserted after he learned that the enemy were also replicants. He recruits Trixie into an underground freedom replicant movement which sets out to sabotage Tyrell's database and internet tracking, so that replicants can't be so easily hunted. Trixie then befriends Ren, a sympathetic human technician in charge of launching

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. He agrees to redirect a test missile to detonate over Los Angeles. This will black out the city and, with an

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, wipe out all electronic data. Trixie and Iggy set out to physically destroy the Tyrell Corporation's servers. Trixie dies in the attempt but the mission succeeds. Servers powering the internet are destroyed and power to Los Angeles are both disabled, permaently. Iggy escapes. He removes his right eye, which can identify him as a replicant. A global collapse follows. All replicant production scientific activity ends. Tyrell goes bankrupt. The Wallace Corporation acquires Tyrell and restarts production of a new model a decade later.

Cast

* Jovan Jackson as Iggy Cygnus *

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as Trixie *

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as Ren *

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as Gaff

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