The Vulcan Changeling Project

The Vulcan Brotherhood

A desert night wind cooled Vulcan’s burning sands as four cloaked figures quietly made their way to the entrance of a cave, a cave where long buried secrets would be brought to light. Once inside, one of the figures lit a torch, it flared up quickly casting shadows along the stone walls as it did so. The dominant cloaked figure drew back her hood revealing herself as T’Pau, Vulcan’s esteemed stoic leader.

“Gentlemen, I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that everything we discuss tonight is to be kept secret, for the very existence of our culture could be at stake.” T’Pau then took a deep breath and continued on, “I am asking you to take the oath, the oath of silence, the oath must be protected even under threat of death or torture, you must never reveal what we are to discuss. Does anyone object?”  The only sounds in the cave were the sputtering of the torch, and the howling wind outside, and after a few moments T’Pau continued on.

Sarek, Ambassador to Earth, watched T’Pau carefully and thought that what she was about to reveal must indeed be of the utmost importance for the cave in which they were meeting was the same cave in which long ago Surak and his followers had once hid from the emotional madness which had threatened to destroy Vulcan many years ago. It was here in this place that the principles of Vulcan’s logic were taught as well as the purge-the purge from all emotions, emotions of passion, anger, lust, love all to be buried down deep inside within each Vulcan soul, buried, hidden like the cave in the swirling sands of the desert. Sarek had no time for further contemplation for as the third figure pulled his cloak back, Sarek inwardly gasped as Shaek stepped forward into the light, Shaek the Vulcan mystic that wandered through the sands near Mt. Seleyah. All three Vulcans now turned to the fourth hooded figure. The fourth figure pulled back his hood, his angular features resembled those of his companions, yet on closer inspection they were not quite the same for the figure that stood before them was Romulan.  

“I am Commander Shaterth from Romulas,” he spoke softly, with just a hint of authority.

When T’Pau spoke next her words were soft and hesitant, “It is time to reveal the story that began approximately twenty years ago when Vulcan was infected with a cult called the VBU, the Vulcan Brotherhood Union. The VBU was an attempt by a group of Vulcan dissidents to return to the ideals of Vulcan’s past before Surak’s teachings, for they were convinced that some of Surak’s texts had been forged and that Surak did not want the purging of all emotion but rather he wanted to blend the new logic with traditional Vulcan ideology. Their attempts to overthrow the government were thwarted and the dissidents were banished from Vulcan; however the story does not end there.” T’Pau stopped speaking as she motioned for Commander Shaterth to step forward.

Commander Shaterth stepped forward and nodded in acknowledgement towards T’Pau, “T’Pau is correct in her assessment of the uprising for it is far from over. When the dissidents left Vulcan they no doubt found  it difficult to blend into the societies of the renegade planets that showed no allegiance to the Federation. However, in their travels the dissidents came across a planet led by a Romulan Commander who had been exiled unjustly by falling out with the Praetor that ruled Romulas at the time. The Romulan Commander and his followers joined with the Vulcan dissidents and formed the RVB, the Romulan Vulcan Brotherhood. Romulas and Vulcan have secretly monitored the RVB for the last twenty years and found that they weren’t a creditable threat to Vulcan or Romulas until now.”