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...
Thus, it was the Battle of A Baoa Qu
،بالتّالي، معركة آباواكو هي التي وضعت حدًّا لحرب العام الواحد
Der einjährige Unabhängigkeitskrieg,
den das Fürstentum von Zeon auslöste, …
Fue la Batalla de A Baoa Qu
la que puso fin a la Guerra de Un Año,
Fue la Batalla de A Baoa Qu
la que puso fin a la Guerra de Un Año,
C’est ainsi que la Guerre d’Un An,
la guerre d’indépendance des Spacenoïdes
Allo stesso modo,
E portanto, foi a Batalha de A Baoa Qu,