Venus, the nigh uninhabitable planet, the second one from Sol. The people of the planet live high about the ground in dirigible-like cities. Venus has been in the process of being terraformed for the past few hundred years, and though the clouds that once created the terrible heat of Venus are only now clearing, the citizens of this planet are renowned for their talent in the life sciences...sometimes enough for military organizations to contract certain labs, though this is only rumored.

Home to humanity, Earth, or Terra to offworlders, is perhaps the most over populated planet in the system, though the reason is easily understood. Held in orbit are a quintet of cylindrical space stations and upon Terra's moon several colonies, all of which are stuffed to the gills with people. No attempts of mass colonization have been attempted since the Generational Ship, the [Insert Name] disappeared just beyond Pluto twenty years past, though many people leave to try their luck solward or in the Belter Union, out beyond Mars.