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 think I'm just wondering where...
...أظنّني أتساءل فقط أين
Ich denke immer daran, …
Creo que me pregunto la ubicación…
Creo que me pregunto la ubicación…
Je me demande juste
où je pourrais trouver…
Diciamo che succede quando mi fermo
a riflettere su dove possa mai essere.
Eu só fico pensando onde é que...