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I'm thinking not a prequel per-se, but a parallel continuum that would intersect the action in Blade Runner at one point, but extend back and forward in time and perhaps differ in location. "Blade Runner Chronicles" was interesting in that it was set in a future Tampa, FL, US. What's Manhattan like? What's Tokyo like? What's Shanghai like? What's Bangalore like? Since the UN's World Police Organization is basically coordinating the hunt for escaped replicants, you could have a global scope to this series.
You could also get a glimpse of what the Off World Colonies are like. I'm fairly sure that what you'd have would be something like Cowboy Bebop's milieu: colonies on planets nearby to Terra, like Venus, Mars and the moons of Jupiter. I hardly think they would have lightspeed or faster-than-light travel at a time and place like that. We would be stuck in our own solar system. Anything else would not have the ring of truth.