Vulcan (planet)
Facts
- Primary: Nevasa
- System name: Nevasa III
- Also known as: Minshara, T'Khasi, Ti-Valka'ain (Myriad Universes: "The Tears of Eridanus")
- Capital: ShiKahr
- Class M
- No moon
- Sister world to T'Khut
- Major Inhabitants: Vulcan
- Nation
- 12th century - Present: Confederacy of Vulcan
- Temperatures commonly reach high-40s Celsius (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
History
- c. 500th millennium BCE: Survivors of the Arretian empire either settle and revert to an earlier stage of development or seed life on Vulcan, leading to the later emergence of the native civilization. (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
- c. 4th millennium BCE: The Furies dominate space around Nevasa, influencing early Vulcan civilization and inspiring, as in many contemporary cultures, a large number of frightening mythological figures. (INV Novel: First Strike)
- c. 4th century: The Time of Awakening occurs when, while gripped in the aftermath of nuclear war, the philosophy of Surak begins to spread across Vulcan. (TNG: "Gambit, part II")
- c. 12th century: The planet unites under a single government, the Confederacy of Vulcan. (Presumptive)
Locations
Orbit
- Vulcan Space Central (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Main spacedock complex for travel to or from Vulcan
- Large enough to hold a Columbia-class starship within internal birthing (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
Surface
- Kel Province (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Located in the far north of Vulcan (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Burning Lake (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Southern portion of the province (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Nuclear wasteland similar to the Forge, with similar EM anomalies (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Technology and outside scanners less effective as a result (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Irinthar Mountains (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Northernmost mountain range on the planet (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Location of a secret Vulcan Defense Force supply depot as of 2165
- Sas-a-shar Desert (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Also known colloquially by locals as the Forge (ENT: "The Forge")
- Much of the region a nuclear wasteland from Vulcan's ancient nuclear wars
- Suffused with electromagnetic anomalies that interfere with technology and outside scanning
- Llangon Mountains (TAS: "Yesteryear"; DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- On the edge of Sas-A-Shar, on the far side of the desert from ShiKahr (TAS: "Yesteryear")
- Mount Seleya (ENT: "The Forge"; ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic; Star Trek III: The Search For Spock)
- Extremely sacred location
- Tallest peak in the Llangon Mountains
- T'Karath Sanctuary (ENT: "The Forge", "Kir'shara"; TNG: "Gambit, Part II")
- Approximately 37 kellicams south of Mount Seleya within the Sas-a-shar Desert (TNG: "Gambit, Part II")
- Site of the Syrrannite revolutionists during the brief Vulcan civil war of the 22nd century (ENT: "The Forge", "Kir'shara"; TNG: "Gambit, Part II")
- ShiKahr (ENT: "Fusion", "The Forge", "Awakening", "Kir'shara"; ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic; TAS: "Yesteryear")
- Laid out as a series of concentric circles radiating out from the central tower (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Straight pneumatic-tube highays extend radially out throughout the city and to the surrounding park district (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Park district serves as a wall of vegetation to mediate the heat and aridity of the desert (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Establishments
- Administration Tower (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Business District (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- ShiKahr Academy (ENT: "Fusion")
- United Earth Embassy (ENT: "The Forge")
- Vulcan Learning Center (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours; DIS: "The Vulcan Hello")
- Primary school education for Vulcans
- Unknown region
- Cities
- Dycoon (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Mond (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Existed c.12th century (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- TesKahr (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Establishments
- TesKahr Central Hospital (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Establishments
- Vulcana Regar (ENT: "Fallen Hero"; TNG: "Coming of Age")
- Cities
Indigenous Life
Animal
Plant
- Kylin'the (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Leafy succulent said to have healing properties
- Pla-berries (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)