TYRELL CORPORATION LLC ®

The Name You Can Trust

What is Tyrell?

Replicant Run 2001

We created the Tyrell Corporation as a living, breathing scenario character in itself. Tyrell will appear in different scenario games at different times throughout history with the same basic philosophy: make money. It is the ultimate caricature of all that is modern corporate practice. Tyrell is driven only by the bottom line and will use any means to increase profit. Think of evil Dilbert characters with semi-automatic weapons and tanks.

The idea for such an entity had floated around within our group for a while. In late 2004, we began to get serious about it. Our first hurdle was a name. After all, Dr. Evil already had “Megacorp” and the “Corporation” was too generic (anyone could have thought of that). Finally, we hit upon Tyrell. After all, our core group formed for Wayne Dollack’s first 48-hour scenario game, “Glade Runner”, at Skirmish USA in 2000. In preparation for that game, we created a backstory for Tyrell and a number of unique characters that Wayne allowed us to put into play. (Replicant Run 2001)

So we had a name, but we needed flesh on the bones of our new corporate character. What could we put on its “role card”? Again we reached into the Glade Runner bag and realized that no one knew how Tyrell became the provider of Replicants in a far-flung future. Where did Tyrell’s history begin if “Glade Runner” represented the end?

As Tyrell appears in each scenario game (including those we host) more chapters will be added to the story. The Tyrell character will adapt to each time period and game scenario while retaining its essential core as a greedy, profit hungry corporate predator.

Skirmish USA gave us the World War II chapter in July 2005 when Tyrell played a “third entity” in the Chuck Stoner Scenario, “The Invasion of Normandy”. We had a blast and met a number of folks who will be part of the Tyrell Corporation for the 2006 “Invasion”. Check out the pictures and press coverage on our other pages.

Updates, game schedules, and embarrassing pictures will be posted on our “Paintball Site”. The “Corporate Site” holds essential information on the Tyrell character. You will also notice that it is our unofficial corporate lampoon site. Enjoy our unique humor (meaning we think it’s funny) and let us know what you think.

It is a curious thing to write history in reverse. Of course it worked for George Lucas, so who are we to criticize?

Sincerely,

A. Eldon Tyrell
President and CEO, Tyrell Corporation, LLC.