However, a number of the survivors were unable to cope with the destruction of their former home in a logical manner but instead experienced intense emotions involving grief and pain that were greater than those seen during Pon farr. Such individuals regressed to a mentality and state seen among Vulcans before the teachings of Surak that brought about the Great Awakening. These Vulcans lived apart from the rest of the civilization on New Vulcan where they lived deep in the wilderness of their new homeworld.