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In the game, the player is Anon (an often-used abbreviation for "anonymous"), a system monitor program similar to Tron. The term "system monitor" is a computer term describing a program or a system of programs which monitor the performance and resources of a computer system.

This video game reveals that the new system Flynn has built is called the TRON System (conveniently, this also allows Disney to create a series of stories around the "Tron" label without them all having to center around the character called Tron originated in the 1982 film Tron). The system was built on a series of servers that new CEO Flynn removed from ENCOM and placed in the basement of his arcade. He intended to use the electronic world thus created, in which time proceeds at a faster pace than the real world, to allow himself (and, potentially, others) to access the data processing speeds of computers directly and accomplish experimentation and innovation more rapidly than in the real world.

The main city of the TRON System is called TRON City. One of its buildings is a reproduction of the real world Flynn's Arcade. The virtual Flynn's Arcade is the entry point for users who rez into the system.

The ISO character Radia may have been named for Radia Perlman, a software designer, network engineer, and author/co-author of two textbooks on computer engineering.

The story reveals that the virus character Abraxas was formerly the ISO Jalen, who was one of the original ISOs studied by Flynn, and an expert player in the Grid Games. Flynn was training him to become the co-Systems Administrator (with Clu), but Jalen was transformed into Abraxas by Clu to assist in the destruction of all ISOs. Clu arranged a false story that Jalen was derezzed in the games. Within the TRON System, Arjia City has a plaza named after him, Jalen Plaza. The name Abraxas comes from the 1993 DOS virus of the same name.

The story reveals that the very first ISO, Ophelia (seen arising from the Sea of Simulation in "Betrayal" Part 1), became one of the original ISOs studied by Flynn (apparently alongside Jalen). "Betrayal" Part 2 seems to imply that Ophelia is actually Radia...notice that, while she wears a different outfit in "Betrayal" Part 1, in Part 2 she is dressed in essentially the same outfit and has the same facial markings as Radia does here in Evolution! If so, why the name change? Did Flynn want to hide from Clu the fact that his new co-Systems Administrator was also the first ISO to self-generate in the TRON System?
Ophelia	Radia

After Tron's battle to protect Flynn after Clu's betrayal, Tron is assumed to be dead for the rest of the Evolution story. We know from the epilogue of "Betrayal" Part 2 that an injured Tron was able to make an escape on his light cycle.

Numerous times in the course of the story, both Quorra and Gibson suggest that they and Anon split up and meet elsewhere to continue their mission to stop Clu, leaving Anon to have to face multiple threats alone on his/her way to the next meeting place. This makes a convenient reason for the video game player to fight scores of sentries and other enemies to improve his/her score, but does not make much sense in the story!

The character of Gibson who appears here was first seen in the Battle Grids video game.

Much more information about the people, places and things of Evolution can found at the Tron Wiki.

 

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