>>The Surak quite arrogantly present themselves as
>>The Vulcan Culture, but I believe that's about as accurate as, say,
>>the Chinese presenting themselves as The People Of Earth.
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>Is this a split between ST Vulcans and UF Vulcans? IIRC, ST Vulcans
>are 99.44% Surakian, specifically because Surak showed up at exactly
>the right time with his philosophy to prevent global war on a scale we
>humans can barely imagine. I know, but I think that's a) not very believable and b) rather dull. The latter-day breakaways from the stultification of the Way of Surak (the Charismatics, the Humorists) are fun and all, but I thought it would be nice to have an original non-Surak Vulcan contingent around. They're such a minority that not many people off Vulcan have ever heard of them (the fact that the Surak control the government may have something to do with that too - they're so embarrassed by the whole thing).
>My understanding of ST canon says that, in his or her natural state, a
>Vulcan is even more a being of passions than a human is.
This is quite true, and the group I'm developing are modulated somewhat, just for the sake of not frightening the mundanes - at least the ones who leave the city are. They lack the Surak aspiration to Kolinahr, but they don't dismiss the fact that Surak had wisdom.
>Wow. Vulcan Amish. Who'da thunk?
Well, sort of. The Surak do tend to think of them as backward, although they're just as technologically adept as the rest - possibly more so, since they don't mind fooling around with stuff like simsense that the Surak find distasteful.
>Ben, if you name this embryonic character "Jebidiah" or some variation
>thereof, I will hurt you ;^>
I don't think it'd look good on h