Timeline (Tron 2.0)

A **timeline** is a chronological list of events that occur within a certain period of time or century. In regards to *Tron 2.0*, several events within the expanded universe occur and give credence to the events that transpire in the game. The following page serves as both a general order of events and a disambiguation page for all events relating to *Tron 2.0*. As with all transmedia, conflicts and discrepancies in the canon may arise as a result of production oversight.

## Chronology

**NOTE:** The timeline available on the TRON Wiki uses unconfirmed information, dates, and speculation from the Tron-Sector forums to create its timeline. The following timeline for the 2003 game is based on information provided by the game or other canonical external content.
### 1980s

Unknown date, 1982
Kevin Flynn begins to seeing Dr. Arnspiger, unable to cope with the enormity of his experience on the Game Grid
February 1982
Flynn begins to conceptualize the "TRON" arcade game.
May 1982
Lora announces her pregnancy, asks Kevin Flynn to be the godfather.
December 1982
Jethro Eugene Bradley is born.
Flynn announces Jet's birth to all ENCOM employees.
October 1983
Flynn begins worrying about a hypothetical situation where ENCOM's digitizing technology falls into the wrong hands.
Alan and Flynn begin working on an upgrade for Tron.
December 1983
The new Tron upgrade cannot tell verified Users apart from rogue Users. Alan struggles to debug the program.
February 1984
Lora continues to experience problems with digitizing without the Master Control Program.
August 1984
Flynn shelves the "Tron Legacy Code" project, citing its uselessness without the ability to digitize.
January 1988
Lora creates Ma1a.
March 1988
Lora discovers memory leak in Ma1a's voice recognition subprograms.
Alan postpones the company presentation for Ma1a.
Alan reschedules Ma1a presentation for 2:00PM the next day.
### 1990s

June 1990
Flynn resigns from ENCOM.
Walter Gibbs Jr. is appointed Executive Vice President of the company.
October 1994
Lora is fatally wounded in digitizing bay at ENCOM by a digitizing laser misfire.
January 1996
ENCOM employees speculate Lora continued to work on and recorded audio for Ma2a before succumbing to her wounds.
June 1996
Ma2a begins to exhibits personality traits of Lora.
March 1998
Jet's ill temperament begins to cause trouble problems at school.
Jet hacks his high school's mainframe and is caught.
Jet is arrested and later released into Alan's custody. Alan forgets his wallet at the precinct.
August 1998
Home problems dissuade Jet from coming home. He begins staying out late.
February 1999
Jet's school grades begin to suffer.
October 1999
Flynn contacts Alan in regards to his well being.
### 2000s

May 2002
ENCOM Chief of Security, J.D. Thorne, is denied a promotion to Vice President of Corporate Security by Walter Gibbs Jr.
Thorne is hired out by Future Control Industries for "Freelance work".
June 2002
Jet attempts to rent apartment. Alan refuses to sign a lease until he gets a job.
Alan helps Jet land a position in ENCOM's Games Division.
Jet starts development on *Space Paranoids 3D*.
August 2002
Alan solves the problem with the Correction Algorithms.
December 2002
ENCOM suffers financial troubles under Gibbs Jr.'s tenure.
Gibbs Jr. sells ENCOM to Future Control Industries.
Alan attempts and fails to get Walter Gibbs Jr. to reconsider selling ENCOM to Future Control Industries.
March 2003
Thorne is digitized into the ENCOM system without correction algorithms by FCon.
His corrupted form creates a viral personality that begins to effect the entire system.
Alan is kidnapped by FCon executives, Seth Crown, Eva Popoff and Esmond Baza.
Jet is digitized into the ENCOM sever by Ma3a to stop the spread of Throne's virus.
Jet is forced to participate in the games by the Kernel. He is rescued from the games by Mercury.
Thorne's virus overwhelms the system. Kernel orders a system reformatting.
Mercury is erased by the system reformat.
Jet locates the Tron Legacy Code on ENCOM's old server, EN12-82.
Ma3a and Jet enter the Net to compile the Legacy Code.
Ma3a is reprogrammed by the Legacy Code's flaw: the inability to differentiate rogue Users from verified Users.
Ma3a is captured by FCon.
Alan is digitized into Thorne's server to test the functionality of the Correction Algorithms.
Thorne is derezzed by the Kernel. The Kernel is defeated by Jet in Disc combat.
Alan and Jet reacquire Ma3a and crash the FCon server.
The removal of the Correction Algorithms corrupts Crown, Baza and Popoff during digitization, creating a monstrous corruption.
Jet, Alan and an earlier version of Mercury escape the FCon server before the crash. Jet destroys the FCon Monster, restoring Baza, Crown and Popoff to normal.
September 2003
Jet.exe, a back-up program of the original Jet Bradly, is created by the ENCOM server.
Jet.exe file is corrupted and creates a surreal reality wherein he believes he is the real Jet. He quits his job at ENCOM, distances himself technology. Attends therapy sessions with Dr. Arnspiger and is later "framed" for the murder of Alan.
Jet.exe combats his alter egos (Red Jet and Clarence) for control under the illusion he is battling the restored Master Control Program.
The real Jet Bradley works to fix the instability within the ENCOM server created by his digital footprint in the Real World.
Jet learns his mother, Lora, was partially digitized and lives on in Ma3a.
Jet.exe uses the Tron Legacy Code to reformat and save the deteriorating ENCOM server.
## Notes

1. ↑ The "Creepy!!!" E-mail concerning the similarities between Ma2a and Lora suggests that Lora's death was not immediate, but an exact date is never provided for Lora's death.
2. ↑ Page seven of issue #1 of *The Ghost in the Machine* confirms the series takes place six months after the events of *TRON 2.0*. Yet, on page eighteen, Alan's death in is dated April 19, 2006, suggesting that the events of *2.0* take place three years after the game's release in 2003. The latter was most likely an oversight on the part of writers Landry Walker and Eric Jones.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *The Ghost in the Machine:* The Ghost in the Machine: Issue 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 *Tron 2.0:* Antiquated, Main Processing Core
3. ↑  Tron Arcade Game
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 *Tron 2.0:* Antiquated, Main Power Pipeline
5. ↑ New Parents
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 It's a boy!
7. ↑ Hypothetical Situation 1
8. ↑ Hypothetical Situation 2
9. ↑ Tron Upgrade
10. ↑ Tron Upgrade Status
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 *Tron 2.0:* Vaporware, Primary Digitizing
12. ↑ Digitizing Technology 1
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 *Tron 2.0:* Legacy Code, Alan's Desktop PC
14. ↑ Tron Legacy Code 1
15. ↑ Tron Legacy Code 2
16. ↑ Tron Legacy Code 3
17. ↑ Lab AI Development 1
18. ↑ Lab Development 2
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Lab AI Development 3
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 *Tron 2.0:* Vaporware, Prisoner Bin
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Leaving the Company
22. ↑ Digitizing Technology 2
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 *Tron 2.0:* Master User, City Hub
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Creepy!!!
25. ↑ Trouble at School
26. ↑ Lost and Found
27. ↑ Home Late
28. ↑ Your Grades
29. ↑ How are you holding up?
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 *Tron 2.0:* Handshake, Function Control Deck
31. ↑ Promotion
32. ↑ Freelance Work 1
33. ↑  Freelance Work 2
34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 *Tron 2.0:* Unauthorized User, Program Integration
35. ↑ Jethro Bradley
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 *Tron 2.0:* Unauthorized User, Program Initialization
37. ↑ Jet 1
38. ↑ Jet 2
39. ↑ Digitizing Technology 3
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 *Tron 2.0:* Vaporware, Light Cycle Arena and Staging Pit
41. ↑ Worried about my Job 1
42. ↑ Worried about my Job 2
43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 *Tron 2.0:* Vaporware, Transport Station
44. ↑ Acquisition 1
45. ↑ Acquisition 2
46. ↑ Acquisition 3
47. ↑ 47.0 47.1 47.2 *Tron 2.0:* System Reboot, Power Oculus
48. ↑ JD Thorne 1
49. ↑ JD Thorne 2
50. ↑ Virus Alert 1
51. ↑ Virus Alert 2
52. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* Master User, Progress Bar
53. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* Master User, Outer Grid Escape
54. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* Alliance, Thorne's Perimeter Partition
55. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* Alliance, Security Server
56. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* Alliance, Thorne's Chamber Core
57. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* Data Base, Cargo Bay Sector
58. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* The Root of the Problem, FCon Lab
59. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* Incompatible, Digitizing Stream
60. ↑ *Tron 2.0:* Incompatible, Incompatible
61. ↑ *The Ghost in the Machine:* The Ghost in the Machine: Issue 2
62. ↑ *The Ghost in the Machine:* The Ghost in the Machine: Issue 3
63. ↑ *The Ghost in the Machine:* The Ghost in the Machine: Issue 4
64. ↑ *The Ghost in the Machine:* The Ghost in the Machine: Issue 5
65. ↑ 65.0 65.1 65.2 *The Ghost in the Machine:* The Ghost in the Machine: Issue 6