![]() She discovers that he preserved Katherine's DNA for years, although an earlier Oren clone had ordered it to be destroyed so "Katherine" could not influence any Trevors. There she meets Keeper, the old man who monitors everything. Æon goes to destroy the Relical, the dirigible that stores the DNA for cloning. Æon convinces the other Monicans tracking her, including her friend Sithandra, to ignore the Handler and to help her kill Oren and his men. ![]() ![]() Æon then goes against both Oren and her former allies, who want to kill Trevor and also kill her for not killing Trevor. Oren has had them all killed to maintain the Goodchild reign. In a confrontation with Trevor and Æon, Oren reveals that nature has corrected the infertility problem and that some women are becoming pregnant without intervention by scientists. He ordered all of Trevor's research to be destroyed. However, in order to keep the dynasty of Goodchild clones in power, Trevor's brother, Oren, had Una killed along with the other members of the fertile experimental group. Una was one of Trevor's most successful experiments part of a group of clones that proved to be fertile, with Una having been pregnant when she was killed. Æon learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor's wife Katherine and that she is the first "Katherine" clone in over 400 years. His preceding clones had all worked on this problem. Trevor's ongoing experiments were attempts to reverse the infertility. Cloning was required because the antidote to the virus made humans infertile. With the dead constantly being reborn as new individuals and bearing partial memories of their previous lives, their troubling dreams have increased. Everyone in Bregna is revealed to be a clone, grown from recycled DNA. Æon questions the origins of everyone in Bregna and in particular, her personal connection to Trevor. When Æon is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader, Trevor Goodchild, she discovers that both she and the Monicans are being manipulated by a cabal of council members working towards a coup d'état, unrelated to the goals of the Monicans. After a mission to destroy a surveillance station, Æon comes home to find her sister Una has been mistaken for a Monican and killed. ![]() A skilled warrior, named Æon Flux, is a member of the Monicans, an underground rebel organization who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by the Handler. Although Bregna is largely an idyllic place in the destroyed Earth, people routinely disappear and the population is plagued by nightmares. Four centuries later, in late 2415, the remaining five million humans inhabit Bregna, a dystopian walled futuristic city-state, which is ruled by a congress of scientists. In 2011, a deadly pathogenic virus killed 99% of the Earth's population, forcing the survivors to regroup and scatter across the Earth. ![]()
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