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...
groups claiming to be the remnants
of Zeon started wars of their own.
قامت مجموعات تدّعي أنّها بقايا
.من زيون بشنّ حروبٍ خاصة بها
grupos remanescentes de Zeon iniciaram 
conflitos por conta própria.