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...
I'm not really looking at anything
in particular when I do that...
...لا أنظر إلى أيّ شيءٍ مُحدّد عندما أفعل ذلك
Ich lasse meinen Blick
einfach nur etwas schweifen.
En realidad no miro a nada
en particular cuando lo hago.
En realidad no miro a nada
en particular cuando lo hago.
En fait, je ne réfléchis
à rien en particulier.
Non è che mi metto a fissare un punto preciso...
Nessas horas, eu não olho 
para nada em particular...