Blade Runner- intro text

[ClayHefner]

Does anyone else think the text doesn't make sense with the plot and they should have changed (or better simply removed it) it in the DC?

- The text claims the problems started with the introduction of the Nexus 6 series, but Decker and Bryant obviously never dealt with them, at least they don't even know if the VK Test works on them (after all they wanted to try "the machine" on a "normal" Nexus 6 and Tyrell went one step further by bringing Rachel).
- Bryant even tells Deckard about the supposed "fail-safe-device" (short lifespan) as though they never needed to bother informing about the Nexus 6 dudes before.

One could think that the Nexus 6 were never used on Earth and after their off-world revolt, Decker and gang just retired all the Nexus 1-5 models on Earth (and thus never needed to care about the Nexus 6), but the text specifically says that only the Nexus 6 were called Replicants (supposedly the Nexus 6 predecessors were mechanical robots or cyborgs).
The text even states that killing trespassing Nexus 6 *was* what the BR units were created for.

Something I'm missing?

 

[ClayHefner]

Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL
CORPORATIONadvanced Robot evolution
into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually
identical to a human - known as a Replicant.
The NEXUS 6 Replicant 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.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

The text says that the term replicant was used for Nexus androids in general, but that the Nexus 6 replicants were superior in strength and agility and at least equal in intelligence. The Nexus 6 replicants were only used off-world and so the blade runners had never encountered them before, having previously only retired the earlier replicant models.

The reference to replicants being used off-world could refer to all of the Nexus types, with the added information that the Nexus 6 was exclusively used off-world being garnered from exposition later in the film.

 

[ClayHefner]

hah never mind...I always though the text read "into the Nexus 6 phase"...lolol

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

^^^
Not necessarily. The previous Nexus types could have been termed replicants because they, too, looked exactly like human beings. The advance with the Nexus 6 is in strength, agility, and intelligence.

Edit to add: ah, okay, you've edited your reply on re-reading.