Concise Biography of Surak - Founder of Vulcan Philosophy.
Surak was born, on the night that the da'Nikhirch (eye of fire), a bright star, appeared
in the sky of Vulcan.
Surak's mother, T'Leia,
was a prominent chemist and mathematician while his father, Stef,
owned and ran a small consultancy business in the city of de'Khriv.
Surak was born in the time of technological
advancement but also when constant war between the Vulcan 'states' was a fact
of life.
After an uneventful
childhood and schooling Surak joined his father's
business. He worked there for a number of years. One night, working late, as
was his habit, he watched the news on a Vid-machine.
He saw the disastrous effects of antimatter technology used
in war and was shocked by it. That night Surak
went missing. He took his father's ground-car and went to the desert, to
He came back, told his
parents that he was leaving and left to spend 5 years in the Vulcan wilderness,
armed only with his portable terminal, he spend the time writing, meditating
and occasionally visiting the holy-men of Vulcan.
After 5 years
Surak returned, but kept writing about the way of C'Thia; the way
of Truth, and control of emotions. A way of life that all
Vulcan needed to live, to save itself from itself.
Later he had one special
student, S'task, who, however, eventually, would turn
away from the teaching of his master, Surak, and lead
dissident Vulcans away to, in time, give rise to the
people we know as Rihannsu.
The way of C'Thia eventually caused the death of Surak: A Vulcan terrorist group called the Yhri,
killed him when he tried to reason with them for peace. But C'Thia
survived and spread to be encompassed by, if not all Vulcan, 99% of Vulcans. Much later, Surak's
control of emotions, was taken by one group, the Kholinaru, to mean the expungence
of all emotions. However, most Vulcans do not
practice this extreme version of Surak's C'Thia.
(Source of Information-
mostly: Translation of "R'mnasek Surak" as used in Spock's World by Diane Duane).