"Welcome to Aphrodite Prime, the vibrant capital of
Venus! Whether you're here for business, pleasure, or diplomacy, we hope your visit is both productive and unforgettable.
Tourist? For nightlife and entertainment, head to Eros Street, where you’ll find
Venus’ finest clubs, restaurants, and exclusive lounges. If you’re seeking a quieter escape, take a stroll through Harmonia Pharmaceutical Preserve Park, a tranquil oasis showcasing
Venus’ biopharmaceutical marvels alongside native flora.
Business Traveler? Navigate to Nyx Avenue, the heart of our commercial district, where cutting-edge research labs and major corporations converge. For networking or meetings, Athena Tower offers premier venues for high-level discussions.
Diplomatic Visitor? Visit Cytherea Boulevard, where
Venusian embassies and consulates for the Pan-Solar Confederation are located. Diplomatic missions and official residences make this street the nexus of planetary politics.
Need help navigating? Consult any city terminal for directions, and enjoy your stay on the bright side of
Venus!"
Capitol of Venus
The Capitol of
Venus is its oldest and largest city. It's famous for its pristine white buildings, its gold trim and its airtight dome. It holds the seat of the
Technocrat of Venus as well as the headquarters of
Starlight Pharmaceuticals. It's a major tourist destination, and bills itself as something of a City of Love.
Bubble By Tradition
Venus'
Terraforming has long made conditions livable, aside from the occasional acid rain, which is diluted enough to only cause mild irritation. The bubble dome is more a matter of tradition and civic pride; the aesthetics of the white-towered city are much easier to maintain without tarnishing if the climate has strict controls. Generations of Venusians have grown up in bubble cities, and they aren't inclined to change that.
It also acts as a handy stratisfier, with the city dwellers able to grow up a little healthier with less acid scarring and chronic pain.
Pharmaceutical Center
Nearly everyone in the city either works for
Starlight Pharmaceuticals or for the government. The surrounding farmland is filled with proprietary flora designed to yield just the right chemicals to be processed into medicines, drugs, and chems.
Stacked Undercities
They call Aphrodite Prime the original city of
Venus, and it technically is. However, it has not been continuously inhabited in all that time. The
Gobi Horror hit all of the first colonists of
Venus. Unlike the larger, more open air population of
Mars, the first colonists were still bottled up. Most of the bubble cities were entirely wiped out, or at least any mutants were small enough in number that they failed to procreate. In Aphrodite Prime, they broke out and fled into the mines and caverns of the surrounding continent, and some into the lowest undercity infrastructure. The second colonists rebuilt the domes and repopulated, discovering the '
natives' and attempting to rehabilitate them.
These efforts mostly failed, but a few hundred thousand Waxies were
Uplifted and were able to join human society with therapies and surgeries, resulting in
Venutian-Psychic Dementia becoming endemic to the population. Meanwhile, smaller settlements suffered attacks by the Waxies and responded with violence. In the fall of the Solar Commonwealth, the rebels supplied the Waxies with plasma weapons from an alien cache found on a planetoid in the
Oort Cloud. The rampaging Waxies overran the cities in numbers that were not even conceived possible, and it was decades before the
Venusian refugees were able to return with a brutal invasion. The domed cities had to be rebuilt again, leaving the layers of previous cities below. Aphrodite Prime's underworld is quite a literal thing; layers of cityscape stretch beneath the city, filled with criminals, junkies, vagrants, Waxies, and
Gobi Worms.
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