[[WMG: Yamamoto is the ancestor of Literature/CiaphasCain]]

ICT is set in the Golden Age that precedes ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Ciaphas could easily be an IdenticalGrandson of Yamamoto. Somewhere along the line, his descendants decided the lunatic he used to serve under had the right idea and began a ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' style tradition of self serving cowardice, and in doing so got granted a portion of Tylor's insane luck...but also inherited Yamamoto's misfortune
[[WMG: The show is the future of the Universal Century]]
In episode 3 Lieutenant Makoto Yamamoto reads out Tylor's letter and clearly sates the date on which Tylor was made a captain. UC 6998.
United Planets Space Force (UPSF) is a possible descendant of the Earth Federation equivalent.

[[WMG: Tylor is like General Ulysses S. Grant.]]

A failure at everything in life...except the army. or in this case the navy. It's why the shows starts with him on the street I presume homeless. He's tried everything else in life and was good at none of it. So he joined the navy and found he had a knack for it...
* A note even as I write this it occurs to me: after the civil war, Grant ran for President and won...Can you imagine a president Tylor?
* Funily enough, that's actually one of the names of the seventh light novel; "The Irresponsible President Tylor"