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...
Ignore the mothership.
The Garencieres can shake it off.
.تجاهلوا السفينة الأم. يمكن للغارينشيير أن تتخلّص منها
Ignoriert das Flaggschiff.
No escuches a la nave nodriza.
La Garencieres puede deshacerse de ella.
No escuches a la nave nodriza.
La Garencieres puede deshacerse de ella.
Ignore le croiseur, le Garancières
parviendra à le distancer.
Lascia perdere la nave madre.
La Garencieres se ne libererà senza problemi.
Ignore a nave-mãe. O Garencieres 
pode lidar com ele.