Venus

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"Sunlight starves. The fierceness chills and thins and runs sweet. A new ocean emerges, thick and salty and hot, from springs and geysers that drench the dead ground. You wonder: will this world's second birth be its finest?"

— Ghost Fragment: Venus

Venus
Astrographical
Star, position:	Sol, II
Satellites(s):	None
Physical
Diameter:	12,100 kilometers
Gravity:	.904 g
Length of day:	5,832 hours
Orbital period:	243 days

Venus is the second planet in the Solar System, and the largest terrestrial planet apart from Earth. With the coming of the Traveler, Venus' toxic air was 'cleansed' and the world was swiftly colonized by humanity during the Golden Age, becoming known as a "paradise".

Overview

Sulfuric gasses are vented from the surface of the planet. Crackling lightning flashes through the sulfuric yellow sky, and the jungle has grown over the remnants of the scientific research settlement that humanity once held here.

History

In the initial exploration of Venus, ancient ruins, predating the existence of humanity, were discovered on the planet and resulted in a colonization rush of some of Earth's brightest minds. After the Collapse, the Vex lay claim to those ruins and began protecting them for unknown reasons. The ruins feature relays used by the Vex which are powered by a heavily protected Nexus far below the surface, and are believed to be part of an ancient network which, if fully reawakened, could turn the planet itself into a system that the Vex can control. Both the ruins and the more recent human structures are now choked in vegetation, though humanity has managed to regain a presence on the planet. But despite this, the city's buildings are slowly being swallowed up by the Venusian ocean and in their place, the towering Vex citadel now draws the eye - a hulking obelisk Jenga tower of bizarre geometric shapes. Its purpose remains unknown, but the robotic Vex unceasingly defend it.

The Fallen House of Winter also has their Lair on Venus, adding to the number of hostile forces already present on the planet.

Locations

• Ishtar Sink (Destination)
  • Asylum (Crucible map)
  • Ishtar Academy
    • Ishtar Commons (Public location)
    • Hall of Whispers
      • The Archive
    • N/Gen Branch
      • Dig Site 4
      • The Nexus
  • Ember Caves (Public location)
    • Winter's Lair
      • Ash Coves
      • The Cinders
      • Wintership Simiks-Fel
      • Winter's Run
  • The Citadel (Public location)
    • The Juncture
    • The Terminus
  • The Last Exit (Crucible map)
  • The Shattered Coast (Public location)
    • Headlands (Public location)
    • Ishtar Cliffs (Public location)
  • Waking Ruins (Public location)
    • Vault of Glass
      • Trial of Kabr
      • Templar's Well
      • Gorgon's Labyrinth
      • Glass Throne
    • Campus 9
    • Endless Steps
      • Echo Chamber
• Maat Mons
  • Infinite Descent (Sparrow Racing League map)
  • Shores of Time (Crucible map)
• Pomona Mons
  • Floating Gardens (Crucible map)

Trivia

• The Ishtar Sink is placed somewhere along the southeastern coast of the Ishtar Terra, one of four highland continents of Venus and just south of the north pole.

Gallery

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  Venus as seen on Bungie.net

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  The sulphur canyons of Venus

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  An Ishtar Collective research outpost in some Vex ruins

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  Ruins of the city metro

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  A Vex portal on Venus.

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  A postcard from Venus during the Golden Age.

List of appearances

• Destiny (First appearance)
  • House of Wolves
  • The Taken King