Venus is a 'young' female Tech-Adept from the Lathes that spent much of her apprenticeship on the Hive World of Merov, where her Magos master worked extensively with the Merovech Combine. The apprenticeship ended badly when the Magos found her to be flirting with heretek; several of the sub-systems she had worked on the longest had been evolving into low-level machine intelligences. Not knowing what to make of it – he did not realize that his trusted apprentice was a latent psyker, whose gift had caused this heresy to happen – the Magos contacted the Inquisition (very rare for the Mechanicus, seeing as they prefer to deal with their own issues). The rest is history; Xerza picked her up and spent some time unlocking the secrets of her 'gift'.

Venus is a pretty dark-haired girl (her real age is about 50, but augmentic work has halted her apparent biological age in the late teens) and with pale skin and beautiful eyes – eyes that seem to change color as you watch them. The only visible enhancements she has is her high-end cybernetic eyes, and to most people those are indistinguishable from the real thing (until she does the color-shift thing). Inside, however, she has extensive cerebro-nervous-cortex upgrades in the form of advanced machine-spirit interfaces and memetic electrografts. Beyond enabling her to interface effectively with machines and giving her access to a big base of meme-data, she also has super-fast reflexes which can be quite useful in combat. She also possesses four fully retractable utility mechadendrite – grafted to her ceramic-metallic reinforced skeleton.

Venus is also a psyker, a telepath to be precise. For reasons unknown – though her implants could be one possible explanation – her telepathy works towards machines, not living minds. This makes her extra-effective when interfacing with machine-spirits, but also places her at great risk of actually sustaining physical damage when slicing (and of course she faces the same corruption/possession issues that 'normal' psykers do).