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...
The wars ended a long time ago.
We don't need those things anymore.
.لقد انتهت الحروب قبل عهدٍ بعيد. لسنا بحاجةٍ لتلك الأشياء بعد الآن
Der Krieg ist schon lange vorbei.
Las guerras terminaron hace mucho.
Ya no necesitamos esas cosas.
Las guerras terminaron hace mucho.
Ya no necesitamos esas cosas.
À quoi ça sert ?
La guerre est finie.
A guerra já acabou faz muito tempo. 
Não precisamos mais dessas coisas.