The series begins in UC 0001, at the very beginning of human space colonization, when a space colony called Laplace is destroyed The main story takes place in UC 0096, three years after the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack and 27 years before Gundaly nor to school in the space colonies His life changes one day when he s him into contact with a new Gundam and its connections to an item called “Laplace’s Box”