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...
Why didn't you tell us there was
something this cool here?
لمَ لمْ تُخبرنا عن وجود شيءٍ رائعٍ كهذا هنا؟
hätte ruhig früher mal
ein Wörtchen davon sagen können.
¿Por qué no nos dijo
que había aquí algo tan asombroso?
¿Por qué no nos dijo
que había aquí algo tan asombroso?
Diccelo prima che abbiamo robe del genere!
Por que não nos disse que 
tinha algo tão maneiro aqui?