On the day of the ceremony marking the transition from the A.D. to the Universal Century calendar, the space station Laplace, official residence of the Earth Federation prime minister, is destroyed by a terrorist bombing. One of the terrorists, a young man named Syam Vist, is caught in the explosion but barely manages to survive. He obtains a forbidden box that will come to be known as Laplace's Box.

Almost a century later, in Universal Century 0096...
Found you, but it's almost
daybreak... This is bad.
.وجدتك، لكن أوشك الفجر على البزوغ... هذا سيّئ
Gefunden.
Te encontré, pero ya es casi de día.
Esto no me gusta.
Te encontré, pero ya es casi de día.
Esto no me gusta.
La voilà ! Ça craint,
c’est bientôt le lever du jour.
Ecco qui.
Achei, mas está quase amanhecendo...