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...
I wonder if it's gonna keep
getting stronger and stronger.
.أتساءل إن كان ذلك الشعور سيزداد أكثر فأكثر
Das Gefühl macht den Anschein,
immer stärker zu werden.
Me pregunto si va a seguir
adquiriendo cada vez más fuerza.
Me pregunto si va a seguir
adquiriendo cada vez más fuerza.
Cette impression
va aller en s’amplifiant.
E mi chiedo se d'ora in poi
non aumenterà sempre di più.
Será que essa sensação 
vai ficar mais forte?