Laplace

Laplace a Stanford torus type colony, was used as the official residence for the prime minister of the Earth Federation Ricardo Marcenas.

History
Laplace was intended to be a location in orbit that would act as a bridge between the Earth and outer space. There are two optical disks at the top and bottom which provide light an energy to the central donut-type residental block (Stanford torus-type). The residental block rotational period is seventy-five seconds, allowing it to generate the same degree of gravity as that of the moon. The ceremony of the ending of the Anno Domini calendar and the begining of the Universal Century was held at this location on U.C. 0001. The ceremony is interrupted by terrorists by destroying the colony, killing everyone inside. While the colony was destroyed, its remaining was still intact for the next 95 years, until the clashes between Unicorn Gundam and Sinanju resulted the total destruction of Laplace, with its fragments burned out in the atmosphere.