Blade Runner 2049 Ending, Explained
(Deckard & K may still have been tracked by Wallace himself, perhaps using those drone sensors to interface a satellite. They would have revealed the location of the miracle anyway leading to an all-out confrontation between the various groups. The tragic stake is that no one solves their mysteries after all. Unless there was a backup before the Blackout. Or they could somehow convert the Nexus afterward using another revelation. Recall the Engineers in Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Or a hidden memory. The audience may expect Stelline to have transmitted something in her craft. That may or may not require natural people as a humanist dependency. Which would irk purists. Then again, Sebastian may not have been the least promiscuous.)