Alright, I'll explain a bit more. Both my character and his friend worked on the super computer together, so in a sense, they were the founding members. the best friend is the operator, and she only knows how far down he went because of the daily message. They both know the codes, but my character was the one who tested it, and wound up stuck without a code to leave. He's still stuck, and from this, degradded. You can be the operator if you want. She doesn't really want to reveal what happened to her friend, in case it scares the others away, but at the same time, she wants to save him. A bit of internal conflict.