abstract
| - At the close of the first three Great Vulcan Wars, the Vulcan Star Empire is in turmoil but still stands powerful enough to threaten the Alpha Quadrant. The old Stellar Confederate Alliance, a precursor to the Federation, has been destroyed by a century of war with the empire and their capital of Sarthong V turned from a fertile Class-M world to a fiery wasteland. The Vulcans are finally unifying and have made pacts of honour to prevent more internal warfare. But the peace can not hold… At this time, a Vulcan military commander, Lord Sav'lek, plots vengeance on an old nemesis, General Sarek, who was responsible for the pacts that hold together the empire and the originator of the ideas of logic that would one day see Vulcan transformed forever. Lord Sav'lek's daughter, T'Hoth, formed the House of T'Hoth and found a loophole in one of the pacts which allowed them to undermine Sarek's authority and undo several other pacts. By the time Sarek discovered what was going on, it was too late - the Great Vulcan Pact collapsed and the House of T'Hoth declared open war on the House of Sarek. The star empire collapsed and was conquered by the Andorian Republic, beginning the old grudge between the two races. Say'lek fought and killed Sarek, kickstartng the Fourth Great Vulcan War. The nuclear fallout turned the once lush, fertile world into a desert. But then, Surak, son of T'Hoth, revealed his teachings and brought peace to Vulcan at last. Yet the grandson of Surak, Sa'tem, rejected his teachings, and tension grew between the old houses. A time bomb began ticking the day that Sa'tem publicly destroyed one of the seven sacred Kir'Sharas, the first copies of the original made for the P'Jem Monastery. That time bomb would see the rise of a deadly new enemy…
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