Venus was the second planet from the sun, or Sol, the star in Earth's Solar System.

By the mid-to-late 22nd century, this non-S3 planet had a significant Space Corps presence, along with some artificial satellite moons. Things and people from Venus and its moons were referred to as "Venusian".

History

Arnold Rimmer once got hold of a Quantum Skipper and used it to explore The Multiverse, eventually finding a dimension where his former bunkmate and subordinate Dave Lister was captain of a version Red Dwarf where the Cadmium II radiation leak had never occurred, and Red Dwarf had never left the Solar System.

When Rimmer tried explaining to Lister that he was exploring The Multiverse, Lister believed that he was referring to a strip club on Venus ironically also "The Multiverse", and denied ever being there, before admitting that he is a lifetime member.

Lister was also happily married to "Krissy", who Rimmer initially believed to be Kristine Kochanski whom Lister had been in love with in his own dimension. However, captain Lister's wife was actually Crystal, a stripper who Lister had met at The Multiverse, and who had danced at table nine. ("Skipper", Series XII)

Mentions in additional sources

• When a young Arnold Rimmer divorced his parents on Io, he was allowed weekly access to the family dog, but the dog kept running away from him. One time it got to Venus with its pet passport before they caught it. The story was related by Rimmer's mother to Talkie Toaster in an interview on the official Red Dwarf website.^[1]
• In another interview with Admiral Bongo, the admiral tells Talkie Toaster that there is a tribe of space nomads on "one of the Venusian moons" that worship Ace Rimmer as a god. Since the real Venus has no moons, the Venusian moons were presumably artificial planetoids.^[2]
• In another interview, reporter Blaize Falconburger relates a story to Talkie Toaster about how she once visited the most famous rock star in the Solar System, who was living in a rat-infested flat on one of the Venusian moons. When she jacked into his Artificial Reality Suite, she found he had lost himself in a vast, virtual mansion, which was glitchy and had the furniture on the ceiling, and the fireplace was squirting water.^[3]
• While Mars was the home of the "Mega-rich," "Venus took the Martian over-spill - the people who wanted to live on Mars, but couldn't quite afford it. Venus was full of people who wanted to be Martians, so much so they often quoted their address as 'South Mars' or 'Mars/Venus borders.' Still, it was a fairly wealthy planet, and the Venusians constituted a powerful political lobby." (Better Than Life)

References

External links

• Venus article on Wikipedia