Blade Runner Tokyo Nexus: To Lose is to Win #2 (Titan, 2026)

The appearance of unsanctioned Replicant technology in the Far East has forced the Tyrell Corporation to ruthlessly protect its monopoly on synthetic humans. Blade Runner Rumiko and a crew of hunters were dispatched on their behalf to aggressively eliminate any threat to their intellectual property. Rumiko travelled to Japan and learned that a shadowy research laboratory called Cheshire, financed by a powerful Tokyo Yakuza family, was behind the counterfeit Replicants. Meanwhile in Tokyo, ex-Marine Mead and Replicant Combat Model Stix worked as unofficial Private Investigators while searching for the traitor who betrayed them during an off-the-books mission to Kalanthi. They had been testing a new neural interface codenamed Aurora, when the unknown traitor stole the device, killed the rest of their squad and escaped back to Earth. The stolen tech enabled a human operator to mentally sync with a Replicant combat model to enhance combat capabilities of both, whilst simultaneously recording the brainwave patterns of the Replicant Comabt Model. A missing person's case ultimately drew Stix and Mead into a turf war between two warring families of Yakuza that they barely survived, and which left them indebted to Alura, the new head of the victorious Yakuza clan. It also brought Mead into direct contact with Rumiko who subsequently revealed herself to be an ally eager to find the Kalanthia traitor and bring them to justice. On Mead's guidance, Rumiko has set off to find a man called Saitama Prefecture whosaid she was in possession of a vital piece of the Aurora System tech. Meanwhile, Stix has been ordered by Yakuza leader Alura to guard the lives of ex-Tyrell scientists Accerly and Uso while they relocate their bootleg Replicant laboratory to a new secret location, and Mead received a visit from Madame Nomura, who offered her a job to assassinate Alura for the murder of her three children in the Yakuza war.