This story is a short milieu of Venus set in approximtely 5000CE. It is intended
as a hard sci-fi and most of the technologies in it are already available in one
form or another. Notably NASA has found that silicon carbide chips can endure
the pressures and temperatures of Venus, even though most metals would glow a
dark red color during those temperatures.
The fictional universe is one focused primarily on self-replicating robots, and
by 5000CE the Moon and Mercury have already been fully colonized, and Venus is
the pioneering ground.
