Venus

Associated Pages
 * Venusian Skies
 * Venusian Civilization
 * Venus Factions
 * Venusians

The Sister
Deep within the well of Sol there lies the sister-world. Once deemed a veiled paradise, Venus emerged as a hellscape blanketed by the pallid acid clouds of a deadly atmosphere.

Entrapped by glowing clouds and dust was the heat from without and within, crushing and melting all things sent to set foot on the ever-changing volcanic seas. Nothing was to persist on the bottom of this gasiform Venusian ocean wherein there was nothing but destructive power.

Golden Cloudscape
But the forces of the hellish planet are nothing but the force of nature, the very same that formed all niches for humanity on its cradle Earth to overcome. Despite their hostile nature, the Venusian skies encompass a unique realm of opportunity, taken on by the pioneers and colonists of the sister-world. Fifty kilometers above the molten lands, they suspended worlds of their own. They seeded living things to transform the toxic and acidic atmosphere, brought mirrors into the sky and cooled the feverish world. From their effort has arisen the living, thriving world wherein eleven billion souls reside to call Earth's sister home.

Skyward Continents
The atmosphere of Venus is not deemed by its inhabitants as such. To Venusians, it is an ocean bottomless deep and as deadly as all Terran seas.

Largest among the inhabited isles of Venus are the skyward continents, expansive open habitats created by humankind as centerpieces of the newly sown life that arose from the pioneer's arrival. Alongside the vast continents there reside countless archipelagos, floating cities, and nomadic fleets, crossing the Venusian ocean with time, clinging to the life-giving layer of the atmosphere.

Seeds Venusian Life
Like deities of ancient worship, the pioneers of humankind descended and walked among a world therein existed none but boundless clouds. By their will and through their technology, they created all land and sew the seed of life. Microbes exhaling air, molecular machines breaking acid apart. Their efforts merely create spheres of habitability.

Subsisting on organic snow, life thrives among the clouds. The living, teeming multitude of creatures without a name has long since left the human cradle and evolved on its own account.

Venusians
The feverish skies of Venus made the settling pioneers its own. In generations, they adapted to the niches of the Venusian Ocean, to layers of the bottomless world in which all skyward continents reside. Some live in twilight, some among the sunlit clouds, some in the acidic rain and others in the perpetual dark. No such thing as measured life exists on a world so hostile in its nature. As such all lineages emerging from this world are extremophile in their nature and of extrordinary kind.