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...
you will still find the same ideas of the
inherent superiority of the chosen elite
لكن في صميمهم، ستجد أفكار التفوّق الكامن
.للنّخبة المختارة الموجودة في فلسفة غيرين زابي
der Überlegenheitstheorie
von Gihren Zabi.
pensaban lo mismo sobre la superioridad
inherente de la élite elegida
pensaban lo mismo sobre la superioridad
inherente de la élite elegida
leur motivation politique
dissimulait l’idéologie élitiste
ma in realtà, la loro dottrina fa perno
 sull'idea di Gihren Zabi
entre eles ainda são bastante difundidas 
as ideias de superioridade inerente