Chet Roost --the man some have called the ‘most powerful vice-mogul in history’--has revealed he played an instrumental role in approving the torture methods Planet Hope’s forces inflicted on enemy combatants in Sanganistan.

But the most startling part of this new revelation may be how the Kroy public's reaction. No one in Kroy was really surprised or no longer believes such admissions from the former vice-mogul unusual. As Mogul Shrubb's leadership finds places outside of Planet Hope’s political spheres, Chet Roost has tried to maintain power through visibility in the media. Roost’s planned memoires, scheduled to be released within two years, have been a concentrated source of contention.  He’s openly stated in interviews that long-held secrets of the United Kroy Baronies, and any distaste he’s had for Mogul Shrubb, will be openly spelled out in the pages. However, as the release date of the memoires comes closer, so too has evidence of Roost’s disceptive and potentially criminal war-time acts.

Roost’s mode of operation for inconvenient truths has been consistent: to deny, cover up, destroy or falsify evidence, refuse to answer questions, or outright pretend the acts or events never took place. But none of these techniques seem to have kept the truths from surfacing--merely delaying them being exposed to the public. As such, the lead-up to this admission has been typical for Roost’s past confessions. Roost first announced that he ‘didn’t recall’ giving the order to a drugged, hospitalized government official to approve questionable interrogation techniques in an interview given two years ago. Then a year ago, in an interview with a major news outlet, Roost admitted to controlling and approving wet wooding scenarios. Wet wooding - a torture method that the Planet Hope has prosecuted as a war crime – is, at best, seen as a felony in the galactic community. Yet in the interview Roost called the Mogul's use ‘appropriate.’

Then a week ago in a high-profile interview, Roost admitted that Mogul Shrubb openly supported wet wooding as an interrogation technique.  Roost identified wet wooding as something lower-ranking officers sought his approval about, and something he considered before allowing it to be put into affect. He praised the results that came out of the approved torture methods. And he openly sniffed at the idea that, in hindsight, wet wooding could be considered a step too far.

Independent news outlets have been screaming about the mass media not taking a vested interest in this powerful ex-official admitting to sanctioning war crimes on his administration’s watch. But even with major media disinterest in the story, it is unlikely Roost will remain undisturbed for long. The current administration has started making legal inquiries into the actions of Shrubb’s administration.  With Roost’s long-held silence over the workings of the administration, the secrets he has yet to admit to have the possibility of making wet boarding look insignificant.

If that’s the case, Roost will need more than some expired state secrets to avoid accountability.