With the coming of the Traveler, Venus’ toxic air was cleansed, but the planet is still quite hostile; sulfuric gasses are vented from the surface of the planet, and crackling lightning flashes through the yellow sky. All the while, jungle and overgrowth has claimed the remnants of the settlements once held here by humanity.
The Vex have dominance on Venus. Towering geometric ruins that predate humanity’s existence dot the landscape, patrolled by automatons that seek to transform Venus into a Machine World like Mercury or Nessus. Humanity’s ruins are slowly being swallowed up by the Venusian ocean, while Fallen scavengers pick the bones.
This planet is home to the primary entrance of the Vault of Glass, a Vex underworld where they developed reality-warping weapons. Control over the Vault has been a cause of many conflicts.