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...
It appears there were still people
يبدو أنّه لا زال هناك أشخاصٌ في المنشأة
.التدريبية لجامعة الصناعة الإلكترونية لآناهايم
In der Trainingseinrichtung
der Anaheim-Schule …
Aún había gente en el Centro Educativo
de Formación Industrial Electrónica Anaheim.
Aún había gente en el Centro Educativo
de Formación Industrial Electrónica Anaheim.
Apparemment, il restait encore
des gens dans le lycée Anaheim.
Pare che nel centro di addestramento dell'Istituto
della Anaheim ci fossero ancora delle persone.
Ainda havia estudantes