Vulcan (planet)
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Facts
- Primary: Nevasa
- System name: Nevasa II
- Also known as: Minshara, T'Khasi, T'Rukh, Thhaei, Ti-Valka'ain (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru; Myriad Universes Short Story: "The Tears of Eridanus")
- Capital: ShiKahr (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
- Class M
- No moon
- Sister world to T'Khut (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Tidally locked to T'Khut (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- 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: Sargonian survivors of the Arret Empire settle on Vulcan, the ancestors of its later native civilizations. (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 (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Lyr T'aya region (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Vuldi Gorge (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Noted for fog (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Vuldi Gorge (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Raal Province (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing; VOY: "Innocence")
- Located on the shore of the Voroth Sea (VOY: "Innocence")
- Fire Plains of Raal (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Sas-a-shar Desert (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Also known colloquially by locals as the Forge (ENT: "The Forge"; ENT Novel: ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- 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
- Surak's Peak (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- One of the tallest (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Located near Mount Seleya (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- T'Klass's Pillar (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Significant landmark near the summit (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Spire of red rock (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- 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")
- Plains of Gol
- East of ShiKahr (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Possibly location of the city of Gol
- ShiKahr (ENT: "Fusion", "The Forge", "Awakening", "Kir'shara"; ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm, Uncertain Logic; TAS: "Yesteryear"; VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
- 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)
- Divisions and locations
- Business District (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Government District (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Located in central portion of the city (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Administration Tower (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- United Earth Embassy (ENT: "The Forge")
- ShiKahr Academy (ENT: "Fusion")
- T'Plana-Hath Historical Museum (Hidden Universe Travel Guide: Vulcan)
- Vulcan Learning Center (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours; DIS: "The Vulcan Hello")
- Primary school education for Vulcans
- Ha'tren (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
- Village several kilometers from Kren'than (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
- Kren'than (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
- Isolated village of aesthetics and adepts near the Llangon Mountains (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
- Voroth Sea (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing; VOY: "Innocence")
- Unknown region
- Landmarks
- Mount Tar'Hana (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Lake Yuron (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Voroth Sea (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Plain of Blood (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Cities
- Dycoon (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Gol (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Han-shir (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Jia'anKahr (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Catacombs (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Kir (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- 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
- Voroth (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Vulcana Regar (ENT: "Fallen Hero"; ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing; VAN Novel: Harbinger; TNG: "Coming of Age")
- Landmarks
Historical sites
- S'loka Empire (SCE Short Story: "Ambush")
- Nation prior to 4th cenutry AD (SCE Short Story: "Ambush")
Indigenous Life
Animal
- Dunewalker (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Thick hide (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Ferravat (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
- Common desert-dwelling lematya prey (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
- Geshu (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
- Desert-dwelling insect (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
- Lanka-gar (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Bird (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Lematya (TAS: "Yesteryear"; TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Large mountain predator (TAS: "Yesteryear")
- Sehlat (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru; ENT: "The Forge"; TOS: "Journey to Babel"; TAS: "Yesteryear")
- Urso-feline species (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
- Some domesticated as pets (ENT: "The Forge"; TAS: "Yesteryear")
- Common on Vulcan colony worlds as well (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru; TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Green blood (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Carnivorous, including insects (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
- Sha'vokh (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Desert scavenger bird (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Wingspan averaging over two meters (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
Plant
- Alem-vedik (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Salt weed native to the desert
- Favinit (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Flowering plant
- G'teth (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Berry-bearing bush
- Gespar (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Fruit-bearing tree
- Hla'meth (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Herb
- Ic'tan (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Conifer tree
- Kylin'the (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Native to the Forge
- Leafy succulent said to have healing properties
- Liral (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
- Fruit (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
- Nar'ru (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Climbing vine (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Wraps around trees such as gespar (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Pla-berries (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Plomeek (ENT: "Strange New World"; ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm; TOS: "Amok Time")
- Flowering plant (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Roots are edible, used in preparation of plomeek broth (ENT: "Strange New World"; TOS: "Amok Time")
- Rillan (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Gourd
- T'su'ke (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Berry-bearing bush
- Referred to as "i'su'ke" in To Brave the Storm
- Berry-bearing bush