Venus

## Paradise Habitability

> *With a surface temperature over 850 degrees Fahrenheit and an atmosphere thicker than ocean water, Venus is as close as we've ever come to discovering Hell.*
> *In order to tame this nightmare, your first priorities will be to thin the atmosphere, cool the planet, and clear the skies. Only then will you be able to gather water on the surface, and begin planting the first seeds of life.*
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## About

**Venus** is an Earth-sized world, albeit a scorching one with a crushing atmosphere. It is the first terrestrial planet to be unlocked. When terraforming, the first, and foremost, priority is to use facilities that lower the Pressure while still earning Credits. Only visit the World when needed until the Pressure is below 2,000,000 Pa, because if you aren't actively playing on the world, there will be no Random Events popping up.

Terraforming the planet is relatively easy, if not a long and boring process at first. Temperature is only extreme because of the extremely thick atmosphere. Once you get the pressure down, the Temperature will need just a little tweaking. The planet does not need much Water for human habitability (150,000 cm at minimum).

## Notes

When using Hydrogen Processors, make sure to cancel put its byproducts so you don't end up with a very messed up Venus by the time the pressure is ideal. If you want to deal with less byproducts, use Biofixture Labs, which only generate Biomass (Oxygen in Biosphere). If you are playing Biosphere, set up a couple of Oxygen Filters.

Venus isn't playable right away; it requires you to achieve victory on Mars before being able to start a new game on Venus.

## Live Event Features

Venus is featured in these live events.

 Under Pressure | Horizon Corporation | Nubia Matiba | Epic

\*Ability to recreate live event scenario in normal games

## Trivia

* Venus losing its atmosphere.
* Venus without an atmosphere.
* Map of an upside down, terraformed Venus
* Venus without biomass
* Venus with 190 kPa of atmospheric pressure.
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* ~~Defining the rotation as retrograde, as done by NASA space missions and the USGS, puts Ishtar Terra in the northern hemisphere and makes the axial tilt 2.64°. Following the right-hand rule for prograde rotation puts Ishtar Terra in the southern hemisphere and makes the axial tilt 177.36°. — Wikipedia~~ Dreamybullxxx here, don’t know a tutorial is here.
* The Daughters of Gaia faction originated here, as shown by the members' clan names hinting to various Venusian mountain regions.

* In real life, NASA is not looking into terraforming Venus, but instead are looking into building cloud cities in Venus' upper atmosphere, where the temperature and pressure are not as deadly as on the surface. Such cities would basically be giant blimp cities held up by potenaly oxygen instead of the helium as most blimps use on Earth. Native microbial life may also possible in this relatively habitable zone.
* The real cause of Venus's extreme heat (which is also higher than the sun's closest planet Mercury (in daytime extremes)) is the runaway greenhouse effect caused by it's thick atmosphere; therefore the task of terraforming Venus' atmosphere and heat are closely related to those who look into terraforming Venus.

* There was actually a time which Venus was habitable. From 4.45 Ga to 700 Ma, it had mild temperatures, an Earth-like atmosphere, liquid water, stable plate tectonics and possibly, multicellular life. But 700 million years ago, its oceans evaporated (largely thanks to the fact that water vapor is a greenhouse gas, just like carbon dioxide and methane) and slowly, carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere as the water vapor would be removed from the atmosphere by solar wind (as Venus would lose its magnetic field).

* One of the ideas of terraforming Venus is to send billions of genetically modified cyanobacteria into Venus' atmosphere. They will decrease the amount of carbon dioxide, and increase the amount of oxygen.

* There is a hypothesis that Mercury was the moon of Venus, but it cannot be true, because Mercury couldn't change the orbit by escaping Venus' velocity — when it left Venus' gravity, some huge body traveling in the opposite direction of Mercury must strike it to lower its orbit.
* Venus actually rotates retrograde in real life, reflected in-game by the inverted map of Venus.
* Venus takes the longest to complete an axial rotation, about 247 earth days, longer than a Venusian year.
* Venus may have had a moon before, but it would have collided back with Venus when a planet or large object planet from space collided with Venus. It would explain its retrograde rotation.
* In-game, Venus is 200 mK colder and 300,000 Pa less pressure than the real Venus.
* Venus has poisonous clouds of sulfuric acid that extends 45–64 km above the surface.
* Several landers had been landed onto the surface of Venus, but they all have melted quickly due to the extreme Temperature of its surface.
* On the surface of the planet, the surface visibility is clear.
* Venus overtakes Earth in its orbit for about 584 days.
* Venus is the brightest object in the night sky besides Luna ( the Moon) and the Sun. It is called the *Morning Star* when it rises before the sun and the *Evening Star* when it sets later than the sun.
* Venus can be occasionally seen in the daytime sky. The other objects that can be seen in daylight are the Sun and the Moon/Luna.

## See also

* Venus vs. Ragnarok Strategy

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