The ongoing construction of manufacturing colony, Industrial 7 at Lagrange point 1, was taking place in the year U.C. 0096. Young Banagher Links, who had grown up without any information about his father, meets a mysterious girl who sneaks onto a ship headed for Industrial 7. As the Unicorn mobile suit undergoes test runs and garners attention, time passes quickly. Banagher becomes embroiled in the enigmatic situation surrounding Laplace's Box, its undisclosed contents, and the conflict it has precipitated. The possibility of solving the hundred-year-old Universal Century curse approaches.