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Eldon Rosen claimed that Rachael was born and spent the first fourteen of her 18 years living aboard the Salander 3. The ship was bound for Proxima with a crew of nine adults. The ship returned to Earth a sixth of the way there.

Movie/Game/Character

J. F. Sebastian is a genetic designer for the Tyrell Corporation. He lives in the Bradbury Hotel. He has remained on Earth due to a condition fictionally called "methuselah syndrome" (a case of progeria).

In his spare time he "makes friends", android companions. The two featured creations are Napoleon Bear and the Kaiser. Chess is his other known interest.

J. F. Sebastian is not un-like J.R. Isidore from the book DADoES. Very likable characters that befriend the andoids/Replicants and take them into his home.

The actor playing the role of J. S. Sebastian is William Sanderson.

Mr. Sanderson reprises this role for the Westwood game.

See:
Accelerated Decrepitude
Bear
DADoES
J. R. Isidore
Methuselah Syndrome
Kaiser

Snake Pit, The

Movie

The Snake Pit is Taffey Lewis' nightclub in the 1st Sector of Chinatown. Deckard stops by their based on a lead. There he is in search of Zhora Salome, a Replicant working as an exotic dancer at the club.

The club is inspired by the Wiltern Art Deco design.

In the game it is referred to as Taffy Lewis' bar, with the marquee simply reading "Taffy Lewis". (Note the spelling of "Taffey" from the movie verses "Taffy" from the game.)

Book/Game

"Specials", as opposed to "regulars", are those who fail to pass the minimum mental faculties test in order to emigrate OffWorld.

Excert from book: "Once pegged as special, a citizen, even if accepting sterilization, dropped out of history. He ceased, in effect, to be part of mankind."

The cause of this deterioration is the radioactive dust in the air left over from "World War Terminus". Although the dust is weaker at the point in time of the story (those who survived had become somewhat immune) it still can cause deranged minds and modify genetic properties. It can be monitored by medical checkups and psychiatric tests. The only prevention for this is to emigrate. Protection used while on Earth is a lead codpiece (refer to AJAX), for men.

A "nice" way of referring to a person with a deficient intelligence. See also "Chickenhead".

The Spinner is vehicle that can both fly and can drive as a ground car. It takes-off vertically, hover and cruise using jet propulsion. It was designed by Syd Mead. Mead has described the spinner as an aerodyne – a vehicle which directs air downward to create lift, though press kit for the film stated that the spinner was propelled by three engines: "conventional internal combustion, jet and anti-gravity".

Game/Character

Character in the Westwood Blade Runner computer game. License number BR6134. She is a Rep Detect who ultimately sticks to the departments' attitude towards replicants, cold-blooded and ruthless. She works alone, and is adamant about that.

Ray McCoy encounters her in the beginning of the game. Crystal's nickname for Ray is "Slim". Their cases overlap one another which may either help or hinder Ray. Depending on your gameplay you may either remain indifferent to her, earn her respect, be killed by her, or walk off together into the slum-set.

The actor who does the voice of Crystal Steele is Lisa Edelstein.

BladeZone features an exclusive interview with Lisa Edelstein.

As described in the book: "Humanoid robot - strictly speaking, the organic android - had become the mobile donkey engine of the colonization program. Under U.N. law each emigrant automatically received possession of an android subtype of his choice...
That had been the ultimate incentive of emigration: the android servant as carrot, the radioactive fallout as stick. The U.N. had made it easy to emigrate, difficult if not impossible to stay."