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TURN 67: April 2141
VULCAN
STAR SYSTEM: 40 Eridani​
ALTERNATE NAME: Ni'Var​
FORMAL NAME: Vulcan Confederation
CAPITOL: Kir Ahl (Kir)
MOONS: None (Sister planet T'Khut)
PREDOMINATE SPECIES
Vulcan is the primary planet of the 40 Eridani star system and home planet of the Vulcan race. The planet was once a lush world teeming with life, however forty thousand years ago, the passage of a rouge star caused a shift in the planet's orbit and locked the world into a new orbit (along with its sister world T'Kuht) causing most lifeforms to become extinct and the planet to become a desert.
Present day Vulcan consists of vast desert landscapes, jagged mountain ranges, and two large salt oceans
Records of Vulcan pre-history are sporadic and fragmentary, with some theories suggesting that the Vulcan race may have originally been seeded on the world by an extra-terrestrial source, prior to the planet becoming a desert. By ten thousand BC, the Vulcan race had adapted to life on the desert world and evolved enhanced strength, ears capable of cupping sound in the thin desert air, as well as an inner eyelid to protect from the harsh rays of Vulcan's sun. At around this time, Vulcans had also begun to develop mental powers and psionic capabilities.
By 3000BC, Vulcan had developed a polytheistic religion and the first of the "mental wars" took place, using psionic powers and various psi-weaponary such as the Stone of Gol. Vulcans during this period were described as extremely warlike and aggressive and were said to have "almost killed themselves off with their own passions".
The Stone of Gol was a psionic amplifier designed to channel negative emotions as a lethal energy burst
​By 1400BC, Vulcan had begun its Middle Ages and this period is often known as the "Time of the Beginning". Manned spaceflight began three hundred years later with warp drive discovered in 900BC.
The Eridani star system contains several asteroid belts which were extensively mined during Vulcan's early space age, circa 1100BC.
By 400AD, Vulcan was a highly advanced technical society, however the planet itself was divided between several warring factions and nation states. The planet fell into near endless warfare, including several attacks with atomic weapons. It was during this period that a Vulcan philosopher named Surak called for an end to the wars through a new philosophy of total logic.
The Time of Awakening, circa 400AD, was marked by atomic wars on Vulcan
Following an embracement of Surak's teachings, Vulcan underwent a one-thousand-year recovery period. Not all Vulcans accepted Surak, however, and several of the more violent factions, including "those who march under the Raptor's wings", departed the planet to seek new worlds in interstellar space.
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In 1535AD, the Vulcan High Command was formed which has remained the planetary government of Vulcan ever since. Over the next three hundred years, Vulcan survey and scientific craft explored a large portion of the Beta Quadrant of the Milky Way, culminating in the publication of the Vulcan star chart database, considered one of the most accurate stellar mapping collections of all time.
The T'plana Hath Survey Craft was one of several ships to study Earth in the 21st century, making first contact in 2063.
Vulcan survey missions to Earth began in the mid 19th century and peaked in the 1950s and 60s as Earth began to embark in space exploration. However, due to the deteriorating political condition on Earth, and the growing risk of nuclear war, survey missions to Earth were formally ended in 2027.
Vulcans would not return to Earth for over thirty-five years, following the successful warp drive launch of the Pheonix by Zephram Cochrane in 2063. Initially, most of Earth's governments were suspicious of the Vulcans and it would not be until the early 2100s, after several diplomatic treaties had been signed with the various Earth nations, in which Vulcans were seen as friends of humanity.
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In 2114, the Vulcan government signed the highly significant "Treaty for Scientific Permission", in which Vulcan offered to provide technical and scientific information concerning warp flight in exchange for Earth severely curtailing its warp program and proceeding only with Vulcan approval.
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The treaty was extremely unpopular, in particular with UESPA which was now required to have its spaceship commanders approved by a Vulcan liaison officer. With the founding of the United Earth government in 2134, several revisions were made to the treaty, however Vulcan in general was still permitted to control the pace of Earth's warp program.