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...
Seal the NT-D, and boot
up the La+ Program.
.+أقفلوا الإن تي دي وأعدّوا تشغيل برنامج لا
das NTD versiegeln …
Sellen el NT-D
y den inicio al Programa La+.
Sellen el NT-D
y den inicio al Programa La+.
Le NT-D sera mis sous scellés
avant de lancer le programme La+.
Sigillate l'NT-D
restringir o NT-D e 
iniciar o Programa La+.