[Slar]

In my own setting, "Krell" is a victim of Cryo-Induced Psychosis. Bruce finds out on a future trip that the experimental cryotubes are generating ice crystals in the brain. He goes back and has the design changed to address this issue. What he does not know is that one of the development team had already run human tests before the reported date. Because he doesn't know who Krell is, he never finds out about these tests.

Meanwhile, Krell is part of the cryo-development team. He sells the tech out to the various non-CoT business people, organized criminal groups, and a group of very concerned televangelists. Sadly for Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, they are caught stealing money from their own church. To get reduced sentences, the Bakers reveal the existence of cryotube tech to the feds. The DIA gets involved, and the Snake Eaters are the result.

Krell is the guy who convinces half the 1980's CoT that Bruce is betraying them, and that they were never going to get cryo berths.