The Veils of Venus: A GCFT Planetary-Layer Scan for Entropy-Time Expression After Ordinary Baselines

This paper reframes the Venus branch of General Coherence Field Theory (GCFT) away from a direct claim that Venus changes time. The correction is quantitative: an unscreened planetary scalar monopole violates Earth/ISS clock quietness by approximately 7×10¹⁴; low-order smooth multipoles require lₘin ≥ 562 near ISS to survive local clock constraints; the kink-tail near-matter coupling is absent at interplanetary distance (λ = 3. 21 nm) ; and a scalar BF F_μν F^μν layer does not produce a vacuum light-speed delay at leading geometric-optics order because the effective refractive index remains unity. What survives is a channel-specific, layer-resolved target: planetary structure may condition how entropy production, relaxation, phase flow, and electromagnetic/plasma response express as measured time in specific channels. Nine Venus atmospheric veil layers are identified and scanned. Each is assigned an ordinary geophysical or plasma baseline, a GCFT-admissible residual class, a discriminator, required data products, and a demotion rule. Three priority rows are developed: VENUS₀6 (120–250 km ionosphere, near-term radio occultation discriminator), VENUS₀3 (50–55 km stability transition, entropy-relaxation interface), and VENUS₀5 (upper-cloud superrotation and tidal wave structure). A BF electromagnetic sector interface matching derivation is included, giving a plasma-coupled discriminator formula and an amplitude corridor (εBF ~ 10⁻⁸ to 10⁻⁷) for shell thicknesses of 100 m to 100 km. A boundary theorem requirement is stated: Earth local clock silence must be passed before any Venus flyby or orbiter claim is admitted. No data claim is made. The Venus template gate remains false until a discriminator is frozen.