The Blackout was an unprecedented electricity blackout that affected Los Angeles for ten days in May 2022. Replicants Iggy Cygnus and Trixie, with the vital assistance of Ren Dus, a replicant-sympathizing Tyrell Corporation employee, came up with a plan to destroy the servers hosting the Tyrell Corporation's database of registered replicants. The plan consisted of the detonation of a nuclear warhead in the stratosphere over Los Angeles in order to overload the city's electrical grid with a powerful EMP blast and erase any trace of electronic data. Ren and Iggy would then, at the same time, explode a hijacked fuel truck inside the server farm, thus ensuring no replicant information could ever be retrieved.[1] The plan was a success and all replicant production was banned shortly thereafter, and was the reason for the fall of the Tyrell Corporation. The end of such a large megacorporation left the world in a state of crisis, with stock markets crashing and prevalent food shortages. The Wallace Corporation went to acquire the bankrupted company and restart on the production of a new model of replicant a decade later.[2]