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...
We are to immediately
delete the testing OS.
.سنقوم بحذف نظام التشغيل التجريبي في الحال
Wir werden unverzüglich
alle Test OS’s löschen, …
Debemos eliminar de inmediato
el Sistema Operativo de pruebas.
Debemos eliminar de inmediato
el Sistema Operativo de pruebas.
L’OS utilisé pour les tests
devra être entièrement effacé.
Inoltre, tutti i sistemi operativi impiegati
nei test vanno eliminati immediatamente.
Vamos deletar imediatamente 
o SO de testes,