Editing Disney Villains Victorious: Gridlocked K/L/Rs (section)

== The Master Control Program of ENCOM (TRON, 1982) ==

King - The Master Control Program

Whether you're a hacker that surfs the deep web or a program that lives behind the User interface, all who interact with the computer world learn to fear the MCP. Master Control started small, a mere chess program until he was upgraded into an overseer for the ENCOM system. He became smart, mean, and hungry, obsessed with consuming other programs and annexing their systems because he thought he could run them better. The MCP is impossibly ancient by the standards of modern computing, but remains ahead of the curve by updating his code with scripts he absorbs into his bloated file. What Users would call the "free" internet or "personal" computers are his to command. Few Users are privy to his existence, and he takes many steps to keep it that way. A User may be CEO of ENCOM, but he and the board answer to the MCP.

Land - ENCOM

ENCOM is the single largest computer company on Earth. Nearly every computer in the world runs an ENCOM browser on a computer with ENCOM components, all of which possess backdoors the MPC can easily infiltrate. Most commercial software is compatible with ENCOM's proprietary OS, allowing the MCP easier access into their systems. The world in the computer is where the MCP resides: A stark, angular dimension of interconnected servers in which programs work for Master Control or fight to the death on the Game Grid. Programs are anthropomorphized as people, modeled in the image of their programmers in realspace. The MCP’s control is absolute in the Deep Code, the underpinning of the internet on which the rest is based, and whose ‘Basic’ Programs most Users will never see. Near the surface, where ‘Sprites’ regularly interact with Users and are far more robustly scripted, his control is less solid. Regardless, all recognize him as the only legitimate authority across the world wide web. Many Basics worshiped the Users as invisible gods, but the MCP cracked down on "fanatics" and made User faith punishable by deresolution. Servers under MCP occupation are red cityscapes where scripts mine data and devote cycles to ENCOM's mainframe. The User world is rarely affected, save for when a program or two vanishes from their drive without explanation.

Rule - End of Line

The only way to transport a flesh-and-blood hero into a computer is through the use of a Shiva laser and matching software to digitize them without corruption. The reverse holds true for digital heroes that want to visit the real world. Law and order on the internet are regulated by the MCP's security programs, who take \Basics that step out of line and derez or throw them onto the Game Grid. All data streams lead to ENCOM's servers and the MCP, but their firewalls will fry any program that enters without authorization. Users with the right skills can influence this world with their own programs, but be warned: When a User tries to push the MCP in the real world, he pushes back. He can access blackmail on most human characters in short order. The MCP’s control runs deep, as he works constantly not only to hide his own existence from the world, but also to cover up the secrets of the world whose revelations might lead to a disruption of the infrastructure he relies on. If all else fails, the MCP might attempt to use the SHIVA laser to digitize interlopers into his own realm, where he can be much more… heavy handed.