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For starters I think venus is a far better candidate than mars for settling. because Elon can choke and die on the impossible planet while we get the fun one!

It just needs to, uh, chill!

Unlike most other planets, it truly has the potential to become a second earth (which mars can't without basically being gods)

Pro: Its in the goldilocks zone (massive W), way closer to earth, its got similar mass, and so it already has similar gravity

Cons: besides the acid rain and deadly heat, is the axis tilt is 3 degrees. Axis is obviously the invisible line through the poles of a planet that it rotates on. Axis tilts decide the weather and seasons. The problem here is that our earth has a healthy tilt of 23 degrees. Venus is essentially standing straight up. As well as the fact that each day on venus lasts 243 earth ones. That needs fixing. Also at surface level, the heat can melt lead.

despite that we can make it work, if ya'll don't want to be pussies that live in dumb floating structures. You're fucked if you ignite the atmosphere and the area there will immediately explode killing you and destroying the habitat. Its a dumb Idea, go to fucking Jupiter to get stupider.

that out of the way, be prepared to commit cosmic sacrilege, the math is within, but stating it directly is going to melt both our brains.

Okay first lets assess our resources!

First off lets just get some tech out of the way (these would be techs we would have by that stage of development):

The ISSR (the International Soviet Socialist Republic) has given us higher access to the already established cargo rocket chains that wraps around the solar system allowing us to transport materials we want where we wan them. We have discovered how to use mass drivers, basically a railgun that can shoot things out of low gravity, very useful to use for mining on moons and getting materials from the Earth's moon Station.

We have been given several Industrial printers, those are Giant 3D printers that can use metals and lay complex electricity as well, basically automated factories that are located in space (they can be moved down to the planets if they have room, and can also build other factories). The fancy name escapes me. They have accompanying service drones that can help move structures or build on the surface of the planet (with the materials). The factories can build basically anything we will need: vehicles, habitats, and space equipment. They can't build too big things all at once, though, those will have to be assembled in large pieces. like you cant just built a mass drive or those kinds of large structures all at once, even with accompanying service drones. They also can build too complex things like fusion drives. the ISSR imports them or we develop our own means of creating them.

We are given the full basic package for surveying a planet: Mining drones, survey drones, our own shuttles, those neat factories, some mobile space solar farms, basic hydroponic farm capsules, and a super big Hexbear space station (with our rooms and everything we'd need so far). Resources are tight, as space industry is extremely expensive, so we gotta make do with as much we can as possible. Earth can only give so much.

But our Hexbear space station is really cool, top of the line, with lots of labs, strong wireless connection that can reach throughout the system, a large control HQ, a giant supercomputer named Catra (yes I may be biased), the works. Although further expansions must be made and ground bases for better access in the future.

Now we've as we conclude setting HexStation's orbit around the planet, our survey drones have given us some data, which we've compiled with our previous knowledge to give us our natural resources and starting moves:

The fumes that come off the atmosphere of venus are chemicals used in rocket fuel! The dense atmosphere is mostly made up of nitrogen and Carbon dioxide, a reason why its hot enough to melt you. Since its a heavier gas than others like hydrogen and helium it allows you to have those nice floating cities. Its so heavy that a balloon of regular oxygen could make a stable floating gas for balloons. But I still recommend hydrogen more, and the carbon actually makes hydrogen safer than it is on earth, so no hindenburg. So I think we should set our factories to begin building blimps for our temporary atmospheric infrastructure.

Since the atmosphere is heavy our balloons can be insanely big, and graphene for the blimps is made by carbon, something not at all in short supply here. Carbon fiber would also be easy to manufacture, a very useful and strong complex alloy. This can help any power problem, since the days are 243 days long, we can stick solar panels on top of long blimp structures held in place by carbon fiber coils to slink around the planet and gather our energy. This can be used for mirror stations, which will be useful later. Temporary shelters could be easily done too, as it could literally be your room at home with enough oxygen inside and a party balloon attached and it would probably float. They are also useful for water storage, if one like giant floating water bottles.

Farms are easy to set up, since so much of the planet is consistently sunny, make some greenhouse blimps. Steady streams of food of any type. You probably want some potatoes after all those damn hydroponic lettuce salads. Also can be useful for any biological testing you do in the future... like lichen that can grow on the rocks of Venus wink wink