An Army special forces verteran, Yang served as the Chief of Heirotus Corporate Security from shortly before the time of the first MBO-1 Encounter until his near-death in January, 1968. Some time after that he wound up in some form of suspended animation aboard the Aeon.
How this occurred has not been shown – the reader is asked to accept the fact that a dead cyborg ninja and his pet ghost-dog-spaceship are playing Super Voyeur on the other side of the galaxy.