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==History== | ==History== | ||
Vulcan civilization expands back significantly farther than that of the [[Human]]s, and there are many gaps in Vulcan prehistory. Around 2700 BC, they were a barbaric, war-like species whom were near self-extinction, suffering through an aggressive colonizing period considered savage by many modern Vulcans today. Some Vulcans began to mentally train themselves so to suppress their emotions by the middle of the third millennium (BC). With many religions available and celebrating deities of war, death and peace, hoidays during this time ceased to be observed in the following centuries (however, some rituals were preserved, such as the Vulcan wedding ceremony). | |||
The inhabitants of Vulcan would be tearing themselves apart by the 4th century. Their rampant emotions, combined with their hostile warrior culture, led to many wars utilizing weapons such as atomic bombs (and the [[ma:Stone of Gol|Stone of Gol]]). A philosopher named [[ma:Surak|Surak]] would emerge from the chaos, and proposed leading a life governed by logic, rather than emotion. His teachings would quickly spread and be recorded in the Kir'Shara, and finally, Vulcans would begin on the path to peace. Surak himself would ultimately die of radiation sickness on Mount Seleya, now one of the most revered sites on Vulcan - though his katra was saved. | |||
One group, the ancestors of the Debrune and the Romulans, would oppose allowing logic to govern their lives and fought a final war with the rest of the Vulcan population. Eventually, they were forced off the planet. In the 24th century, myth suggests that a [[Q]] amidst a "self-destruction stunt" was perhaps responsible for a hundred year war between the Romulans and the Vulcans. | |||
By the 9th century BC, Vulcans were capable of space travel. When they first travelled into deep space, they didn't face encounters with hostile aliens often - and not nearly at the same rate as [[Human]]s during their first endeavors - due to fewer warp-capable species. The P'Jem monastery was founded on another planetary body, and early Vulcan space exploration would be taught in schools of the [[Federation]] many years later. After the invention of the warp drive, it took them another century before they broke the warp 2 barrier. | |||
Vulcans would make contact with the [[Tellarite]]s in the early 20th century, as did contact with the [[Andorian]]s. However, they found themselves in a border dispute with the latter, due to their neighboring home systems and the Vulcans suspicious nature towards the Andorians' territorial and militaristic nature. It lasted two hundred years, with many Andorians feeling that the only thing keeping Vulcans from invading their homeworld was the threat of Andorian retaliation. | |||
Their first contact with the [[Klingon]]s resulted in the Vulcan starship attacked and destroyed. Unable to open communications with the Klingons, Vulcans began all subsequent encounters with the Klingons by firing on their vessels on sight, which earned them the respect of the Klingons and finally beginning formal relations. | |||
When the Humans launched their first artificial satellite into orbit, the Vulcans began making routine flybys of [[Earth]] in the Sol system to keep track of Human development. These observations were limited to remote studies from high orbit. They were thus aware of humanity's World War III, but chose not to intervene in what was considered a local problem. They would, however, make formal contact with Humans when a routine scouting mission noticed Zefram Cochrane's first warp-speed flight. And alliance between the two races was born, though the Vulcans initially refused to share advanced technology or information. Although many Humans believed the Vulcans were holding them back from their true technological potential, Vulcan considered Earth its most important allies "for over a hundred years." | |||
By the 2150s, Vulcan was considered a regional power in the Alpha quadrant, despite their rocky relationships with species such as the Andorians, and in 2161, one year after the Earth-Romulan War was decided, the old war allies, with the consent of the Vulcan Council, founded the [[United Federation of Planets]] in San Francisco, on Earth. | |||
A Vulcan faction known as the logic extremists, opposing Vulcan participation in the Federation and the integration of aliens - namely Humans - into Vulcan society, bombed a Vulcan Learning Centre in an attempt to kill a Human child whom was studying there. They would continue to exist into 2256, with an attempted assassination of the Vulcan Ambassador [[ma:Sarek|Sarek]]. Despite the complications within their own society, the Vulcan people remained an integral part of the Federation during the Federation-Klingon War. Over the following decades, Sarek would be asked to come out of retirement to represent Vulcan at the Babel Conference in 2268, where the Vulcan government strongly promoted Coridan's admission into the Fedeartion - he would also act as a personal adviser to the Federation President, and was involved in the Khitomer Accords. | |||
In the second half of the 23rd century, there were [[Starfleet]] vessels crewed entirely by Vulcans. | |||
A renewed attempt at Vulcan-[[Romulan]] reunification almost resulted in an invasion of Vulcan, beginning when Ambassador [[ma:Spock|Spock]] went to Romulan homeworld when the new Proconsul Neral convinced him to be ready for opening formal relations with the Vulcan people. However, it wasn't authorized by the Federation Vouncil, or by Starfleet, and would soon present itself to be a Romulan attempt to gain a foothold within the Federation by using the underground reunification movement as a cover. The cover was ultimately exposed, and Romulan forces entering Federation space aboard Vulcan transport vessels towards the Vulcan homeworld discovered. Spock would continue to work for a rapprochement between Vulcans and Romulans over the next two decades. | |||
The Vulcans would be at the forefront of exploring the Gamma quadrant after discovery of the [[Bajoran]] wormhole in 2369. Here, they would first encounter the [[Wadi]], and science ships would later encounter the [[Rakhari]]. Unfortunately, the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole also introduced the Alpha quadrant to the [[Dominion]], and in late 2373, the Dominion War broke out. During the early months of the war, the Fifth Fleet fought against Dominion forces near the Vulcan homeworld. When [[Betazed]] fell, it left Vulcan in increased danger as the Dominion began building its forces on the [[Betazoid]] home planet. The danger would thankfully never materialize, with the Dominion War ending in late 2375, the Federation Alliance with the [[Klingon]]s and the [[Romulan]]s emerging victorious. | |||
The efforts to facilitate eventual Romulan-Vulcan reunification came to an abrupt end when Romulus was destroyed by the [[Hobus Supernova]]. Ambassador Spock, unable to prevent the destruction of the Romulan and [[Reman]] homeworlds, used a red matter singularity to stop the spreading of the supernova. During the choas, however, Ambassador Spock was lost.<ref>[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Vulcan_history ''Vulcan history''], Memory Alpha</ref> | |||
==Government== | ==Government== | ||