#vulcan system

[startrek-eridani]

Did you know? The eponymous "Eridani" after which the show and the NCC-1967 USS Eridani is called is actually a constellation? 🌌💫✨

The constellation of Eridanus is visible in the sky of the southern hemisphere, and is the representation of a river. Namely, the word Eridanus is latin for the real Po River, but the constellation is also said to represent the Nile River. It is also the name of a greek god, who is the deity of its legendary river. Its brightest star, Alpha Eridani is also colloquially known as Achernar, meaning "The End of the River".

The NCC-1967 USS Eridani on the other is a federation starship, commissioned in the late 23rd century. She's a Consitution II refit ship, with a crew complement of 500 people. While she is destined for exploration and diplomatic missions, she is also equipped for defense and combat, if needed be. Saavik served as her First Officer for six year before the retirement of Eridani's former captain and her installment as the ship's commanding officer on her next 5 years mission.

A more Star Trek related fun fact is the Vulcan is actually situated in the 40 Eridani system! Vulcan (or T'khasi or Ni'var) and it's sister planet T'khut orbit 40 Eridani a.

[without-ado]

Vulcan at sunrise l John Kraus

[darkenergyslivers]

NASA’s Juno Gets a Close Look at Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io on Dec. 30, 2023 (via u/enknowledgepedia on r/spaceporn)

[purpleenma]

Finally the ✨Zine O'biology✨ @zineobiology is out for everyone to feast upon! 🙌

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"With a Mind as Fertile as the Chenesi": A Brief Exploration of the Interrelatedness Between Telepathy and Sexuality of the Vuhlkantra.

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And within its many pages full of absolute genius of all kinds you can find this new collaboration with amazing @ex--astris--scientia (CampySpaceSlime) where this diagram comes from. If you like Vulcans, mind melds and the fra'als I highly recommend you give it a read 🖖✨

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[wintersnails]

there should be a ds9 episode where O’Brien finally gets a genuinely relaxing, non-traumatic vacation but the entire station breaks in half while he’s gone so of course he has to come back and put it back together with Cardassion extra-strength duck tape or something

[whirligig-girl]

Some OC+canon Star Trek homeworlds and terrestrial planets! First row: 967-Delphini A System (including Oistir, made for @raydrawsdaly) Second row: Vulcan System, comprising 40 Eridani b, Ni'var, T'khut, and "Delta-Vega." third row: Orion system, comprising Orion I, Orion II, Orion III (homeworld), and some uninhabitable members of a long since broken resonance chain. fourth row: the Solar System, comprising Mercury, Venus, Earth, Luna, and Mars. fifth row: TE-92/Iota Sigma system, comprising TE-92b, TE-92c, TE-92d I and II, The Ocean and Lantern, and Schwil sixth row: Zwo-Nmu system, including Rabbit, the Omen moons Spark Rival Oldsky and Lake, and Mellanus.

I'd like to make a version of this that contains gas giants, ice giants, and proper super-earths, but for now just the small planets are acknowledged. (Also i just realized I forgot the Schwil-family dwarf planets and the Solar Main Belt dwarf planets, and also the inhabited moons of the Solar System planets.... aghshjdhgj whatever i gotta call it a night at some point.)

[lilacs-in-space]

I would love to use Dreamwidth more, as I miss LJ style communities, but it seems deader than a dodo over there. I know you should be the change you want to see in the world, but hot damn, half the communities that look interesting to me have been silent for 2-4 years!

[lizardbrainlabs]

in my continued quest to make as many au versions of my favorite oc i present to you: t'hela

[just-call-mefr1es]

What if Pheaton had long hair and was besties with Vulcan

STOP STOP HE ACTUALLY HAS LONG HAIR IN MY AU SCREAMS

[theshadowrealmitself]

Hopeful this finds you alive, if not well, after your paper

I've been thinking of your time-displaced!human who was able to grow all these random seeds that turn out to be Vulcan spices and herbs au from a while back

Can't remember if you already said, but! Had a thought XD

Imagine they had a vulcan neighbor who had a kid in star fleet. And when the neighbor's kid (same-ish age as the human) returns, the human gives them a packet of fresh and dried herbs from the garden which, because of the loss of their planet, has more meaning to it than the human was going for. And they now find themselves being courted (not that they realize this at first. Their neighbor's child just happens to be very polite and pleasant company and answers their questions about the time they've found themselves in)

Thoughts?

Thoughts: My thoughts whenever I think about my ocs like this (cause. I have. several. that match that description 😭) always come back to them having to fight off scientists trying to move into their garden to study the thriving plants and what not

(They look away for one fucking second and there’s a team of them already studying the soil and the temperature and everything else that affects the plants and writing down papers on it, they keep having to shoo them away to get some privacy in their backyard again)

So how I would do this is, instead of them thinking the neighbor’s kid is just nice, they think the neighbor’s kid is trying to set up shop in their garden and that’s why they’re accidentally overlooking any and all signs of courtship

[without-ado]

Liftoff of ULA Vulcan l John Kraus

l First U.S. commercial robotic launch to the Moon l ULA(United Launch Alliance) l more info at NASA

[sysboxes]

[Text: This alter is a Vulcan who embraces their current humanity.]

Like/Reblog if you save or use

[bumblingbabooshka]

care to EXPLAIN your most recent post??? (Tone /lighthearted and curious)

Yes!! The Post in Question

[ex--astris--scientia]

Qui'lari

According to the Deep Space Nine episode "the Muse" (season 4, episode 21), the telepathic openings within a Vulcan's psionic system are called "qui'lari". These are commonly also referred to, though mostly in fanfiction or beta canon, as "meldpoints" due to them being most often used for melding. But just what are qui'lari? Based on canon and my own musings, I've come to the conclusion that they are a type of telepathic chakra. They are a pinwheel of psionic energy that can be opened in order to facilitate deeper telepathic linkages and mental mingling. They act as sluice gates for kash-tepul (mental energy) and the proper health, alignment, and care of the qui'lari assists in the flow of kash-tepul throughout the Vulcan psionic system as well as keeps them healthy and skillful enough for melding. While the entire Vulcan body is open to telepathic touch, the true depth and breadth of it comes from the stimulation of the qui'lari.

In traditional Vulcan religion, there is an emphasis on the Inner Chorus, a grouping of numinous beings that seem to represent the inner emotional landscape of any individual Vulcan. These beings are named for the planets in the Vulcan solar system, which leads me to believe that the solar system itself is the Outer Chorus with which the Inner Chorus is meant to be aligned. Thus embodying the idea of one's inner life being just as ordered as the mechanisms by which planets find their orbit. The harmony that is produced between the Inner and Outer Choruses is the song of C'thia ("reality-truth" or the religious doctrine of logic that Surak preached). It is my belief (which is to say, not backed by canon or beta canon or anything of the sort), that the Eridanic solar system therefore plays a strong symbolic role in Vulcan thought and religion (due to the realities of pon farr and its homeward draw, as well as the tendency of Vulcans toward tradition, I believe the hearth plays a central role for them and once they'd become aware of their planet as the ultimate hearth and the way it's situated in space, the entire system, with its mathematically clean and organized movements of the cycles of the celestial bodies, would represent the ultimate proper ordering). Due to this, I've decided that it's pretty likely that the qui'lari would be organized and named for the celestial bodies.

This is completely of my own invention but the qui'lari system is as follows:

1. Alam'ak. Named for the primary of Vulcan's three suns, this meldpoint is located around where the third eye is, at the center of the forehead. Since Alam'ak is the deity of divine illumination and inspiration, this qui'lar is the one used for connection with the Econ, the universal mind or the mind of God.

2. Behr'ak. Named for one of the suns that are in binary orbit, this meldpoint is found on the left temple.

3. Czar'ak. Named for the other binary sun, this meldpoint is found on the right temple. Both of these temple qui'lari are indicative of mental revelation and inspiration that is a little more enfleshed and closer to home. These are the primary receptive meldpoints, typically passively accepting kash-tepul and mind connection.

4. Ket-Cheleb. Named for one of the planets, this qui'lar is found in the mouth, under the tongue. Ket-Cheleb is known as the Destroyer and is a violent deity aligned in the Inner Chorus with emotions such as rage and anger. This meldpoint is the one that is most hidden and the cultivation and health of it has to do with the Vulcans' belief in sacred privacy. The keeping of ones thoughts to one's self (keeping them under the tongue, as it were).

5. T'Khut. The left hand. While technically made up of a system of minor qui'lari which are all located on the fingertips, due to their closeness and the tandem in which they work, the hand meldpoints are taken as one.

6. T'Khasi. The right hand. Alongside T'Khut, these two qui'lari (or systems of qui'lari if you want to be technical) represent the active meldpoints, as opposed to the passive ones found at the temples. It is through the fingers that Vulcans touch another mind (as opposed to being touched).

7. Valdena. Located at the heart and named for the deity aligned with feelings of love and joy, this meldpoint is the emotional center. Thoughts flowing from Valdena tend to be wordless and more emotionally charged. This meldpoint is meant only to be utilized, therefore, by bondmates or other close relationships.

8. Tel-Alep. While the other meldpoints are typically a single point (such as a fingertip or one place on the skull), this qui'lar is the entire length of the twin tentacle-like organs near the Vulcan genitals that are called fra'als. These are the most telepathically sensitive locations on a Vulcan's body and melding with them is the most telepathically erotic.

9. Kal-Apton. The left ankle.

10. Kir-Alep. The right ankle. Both this point and the previous one are the primal meldpoints. Typically unused for connection with another humanoid mind, they are instead meant for mental focus and rootedness. Essentially anchoring one's thoughts to the ground they walk on. The connection to the living web of a planet. A Vulcan may self-stimulate these points in meditation in order to achieve emotional and mental grounding.

[headphones-lifeform]

Looking for advice on how to pronounce T'Khut.

Is the "kh" a "k" sound or more of a "ח"? Is it something else entirely?

[spacenutspod]

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