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...
What?! I don't want to spend two days here
listening to Bancroft's "special" lectures!
ماذا؟! لا أريد أن أبقى يومين هنا
!"لأسمع محاضرات بانكروفت "الخاصّة
Was?! Ich hab keinen Bock auf 2 Tage
Sonderunterricht mit Bancroft!
No quiero pasar dos días aquí oyendo
las conferencias especiales de Bancroft.
No quiero pasar dos días aquí oyendo
las conferencias especiales de Bancroft.
Quoi ? On va encore se taper
les cours de Bancroft, demain ?
E-Eu não quero passar dois dias ouvindo 
as aulas especiais do Bancroft, não!