U.C. 0096... The still-under-construction manufacturing colony Industrial 7 floats near Lagrange point 1. Banagher Links, a young man who grew up without knowing who his father is, encounters a mystery female who has stowed away on a ship destined towards Industrial 7. The hands of time begin to move as the white mobile suit Unicorn passes repeated testing and becomes the focus of several theories. Banagher is unaware that he has become embroiled in the controversy over Laplace's Box. What exactly is Laplace's Box? What is the mystery it holds? The Universal Century's hundred-year curse is about to be lifted.