The Venture Compound was the home of the Venture Family and the main headquarters of Venture Industries.
History
Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the land that became the foundation of the Venture Compound was originally a Indian burial ground,[1] later it was zoned out by the son of Colonel Lloyd Venture for the "care and upkeep of American rightness and the active defense of her civil needs."[2]
Over time, Jonas Venture, Sr. apparently constructed (near 1950's-early 1960's) the compound's large research and manufacturing campus with his many scientific inventions' profits, large government contracts, and business acumen. It evolved to become an enormous set of buildings, with a large fountain and a giant stone statue of Jonas holding a young Rusty on his shoulder up front, the two shadowing a beautifully-designed white compound. The compound would seem at one time to have had a large workforce, but is now practically empty. It is large enough that Dr. Orpheus and his daughter Triana Orpheus can actually rent out an entire wing as their own home.
After Jonas Venture Sr. passed away, much of the compound has fallen into decay. As a result, Rusty Venture has forgotten much and is largely unaware of what it contains. A running gag in the third season was a constant rediscovery of new parts of the compound, from Dr. Venture learning he has a Manufacturing Wing, to discovering two original members of Team Venture, Hector Molina and Swifty, having lived at the compound for around twenty years, to an entire society of orphans living in his basement, worshiping an old video of his father.
In Pinstripes & Poltergeists, Thaddeus Venture is hit with a notice of a zoning violation for the Venture Compound for not using enough of it for prosocial, altruistic purposes. Had the matter not been taken care of, Thaddeus Venture would have lost it to the Mommoth Corporation. The lawsuit was part of a scheme launched by Monstroso.
In All This and Gargantua-2, the compound is set on fire by The Monarch, and burns to the ground, completely ruined (and later probably abandoned). The Venture family goes on to live in the newly built VenTech Tower, left to Rusty by his late brother.
In The Inamorata Consequence, the Venture family returns to the charred remains of the Venture Compound for the Second Summit of Tolerance between the Guild of Calamitous Intent and the O.S.I. The Second Summit takes place on the fiftieth anniversary of the First Summit of Tolerance, brokered by Jonas Venture, Sr. in the same location.
In Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, it's remains have been removed (except the statue), later the VenTech Tower is ejected from New York by Mantilla to the Venture Compound.
Residents
Current
- Owner: Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture
- Bodyguard: Brock Samson
- Occupant(s): Hank Venture, H.E.L.P.eR., Sergeant Hatred, Ben, RICO, H.E.L.P.eR. Model Two, M.U.T.H.E.R.
- Associate(s): Dermott Fictel, The Order of the Triad (Dr. Byron Orpheus, The Alchemist, Jefferson Twilight)
Former
- Owner: Jonas Venture, Sr. (deceased)
- Bodyguard(s): Myra Brandish, Molotov Cocktease (temporarily), Sergeant Hatred
- Occupant(s): Dean Venture, Dr. Jonas Venture, Jr. (temporarily; deceased), Paul Entmann (deceased), The Subterranean Dwellers (deceased), D-19 (deceased), E-Den Gorilla (deceased), Gary Fischer (temporarily)
- Tenant(s): Dr. Byron Orpheus, Triana Orpheus, Simba, S.P.H.I.N.X. (Brock Samson, Hunter Gathers, Shore Leave, Sky Pilot, et al.)
- Employee(s): Hector Molina, Swifty
- Associate(s): Conjectural Technologies (Pete White, Billy Quizboy)
Layout
The Venture Compound is surrounded by an electric fence and (later) guarded by a laser defense system. There is an intercom just outside the front gate where the mailbox is located as well. It is implied the compound didn't get many visitors as seen in The Invisible Hand of Fate, when Pete White is dropping by, he has to use the intercom to be let inside.
The compound also included the storage of the X-1 (kept in the hangar) and the X-3 which until very recently was missing but had gone largely unnoticed.
The Venture Compound's facilities include:
- Ben's house and field (mass grave)
- Manufacturing wing, Hector Molina and Swiftys home (later S.P.H.I.N.X. Headquarters, later blown up by The Monarch)
- Hanger/garage
- Cloning Laboratory
- Pool with patio
- Main bedroom, Rusty's room
- Brock Samson's underground room (later Sergeant Hatred's room)
- Dean and Hank's shared room (later Hank's room)
- Bathroom
- Living room
- Kitchen
- Jonas' private den, with a underwater view of the pool (converted into a guest bedroom)
- Video Surveillance room
- Laboratory, where Dr. Jonas Venture, Sr., Dr. Thaddeus Venture, and Dr. Jonas Venture, Jr. would work on their various experiments and inventions.
- Panic Room: It has 8" tempered steel walls where the Venture family would hide from danger. When activated, the beds of Rusty and his sons transform into slides, instantly transporting them to this room. Dr. Venture refers to it as "The Panic Room", and has used it on multiple occasions throughout the series. It was also used as a dusty storage room full of Christmas decorations.
- Underground complex intended to be a bomb shelter. It contains an artificial intelligence in a room, named M.U.T.H.E.R., a tramway, and a concert hall with a 90 piece classical orchestra. It also contained a Titan II ICBM, built (presumably) by Jonas Venture. Later rented out the silo.
- Venture Industries Apparel Division/attic, D-19's room (later Dean's room)
- Advanced Arachnid Research Laboratory (converted into Orpheus' apartment)
- Lobby
- A "public room" where Jonas negotiated the "Treaty of Tolerance" with The Guild of Calamitous Intent,[3] and showed off various new inventions (H.E.L.P.eR. Model Two's[4]) (as did Rusty[5])(later used for the Treaty of Tolerance Summit II).
- R.R.O.C.C. Rocket Research Observation Command Center. The most highly restricted area of the Venture Compound.
- E-Den: A huge bio-dome full of jungle plants intended to be a closed ecological system to prepare astronauts for extended space station living. It was inhabited by an extremely violent (possibly mutated) gorilla and its two offspring, all of which were presumably shot by Sgt. Hatred (later used for the Palaemon Project).
- Gargantua-1 Research and Development building (later used for the Palaemon Project)
Trivia
- In the opening scene of the pilot episode, Otaku Senzuri reads a newspaper article that states the compound is located in Colorado Springs.
- The design of the main Venture Compound building was directly inspired by the General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
- The compound's location in Colorado Springs is a reference to a number of U.S. military bases, NORAD, Air Force Academy, and defense industry contractors located there. This may also be an homage to the brilliant but eccentric scientist Nikola Tesla, who also had a laboratory near Colorado Springs, and a Tesla museum.
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