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...
He thinks that the decommissioned
Anaheim ones are fine.
إنّه يظنّ أنّ مكوكات آناهايم التي 
.توقفت عن العمل ليس بها أيّ بأس
Mehr als die Wracks von Anaheim
haben wir wohl nicht verdient.
Cree que los que dieron de baja
en Anaheim son válidos.
Cree que los que dieron de baja
en Anaheim son válidos.
Il dira qu’une navette d’occase
suffit amplement.
Pensa che quelli rottamati
dalla Anaheim vadano bene.
Ele acha que esse antigo ônibus 
da Anaheim dá pro gasto.