After the Second Neo Zeon War, also known as "Char's Counterattack", ended, the Earth Sphere achieved a brief peace. Three years later, in the year 0096 of the Universal Century, a secret negotiation was held on the industrial colony "Industrial 7". The "Vist Foundation", which had a secret agreement with the Earth Federation Government and developed based on it, planned to give the top secret "Laplace Box" that used to threaten the Federation to the remnant of the Neo Zeon army "Armband".