House Teleiw

Teleiw was a Vulcan House and clan that existed on the planet Vulcan and in the Vulcan System.

History

During the Vulcan age of expansion, as the Vulcan people ventured out into their own solar system, this house built and launched a small but respectable fleet of seven ships with which to mine for diamonds and gemstones in asteroids. The family had initially done well and had enough for everything despite their large numbers. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

10 years after the fleet was initially launched, the wife of Nomikh (clan head and head of house Teleiw) died. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

At some point within half a century of the initial fleet launch, a five-year war broke out between the Teleiw and the Nashih. During which time, Urekh was caught on the ground and vaporised. When the war came to an end and Nashih emerged victorious, they took Gelevesh as a prize of war and recommissioned it as a scoutship or something like that, going on to condescendingly turn out a pitiful payment for Nomikh and his family as “compensation”. With the losses of Gelevesh and Urekh (the largest ships of the fleet), the remaining clan ships weren’t big enough to take all of Gelevesh’s original complement of 100, and thus whole subfamilies were forced to scatter across the planet and find work on the ground or in someone else’s ship. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

As time wore on after the end of the war, the remaining ships were sold off one by one to pay off house Teleiw’s still-huge debt from building Gelevesh. Many more subfamilies of each ship’s subclan were forced to leave or relocate to the planet as the fleet dwindled, and Nomikh himself was forced to move himself and his dwindling subfamily from ship to ship. By the time 50 years had passed since the fleet’s initial launch, the only ship left was Rasha, which held the eleven remaining members of Nomikh’s own subfamily (including Nomikh). (TOS novel: Spock's World)

Family Business

Since it first sent its spaceships out, house Teleiw had always mined for diamond rather than the more common iron and nickel asteroids. The reason for this was because, even at the family’s most successful point, they didn’t have enough capital to buy a ship of the size needed to handle the really big rocks that would make a large nickel-iron mining operation pay off. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

Though diamond (especially the industrial kind) was only found in the uncommon carbon-matrix asteroids comprising about 1/10 of 1% (I.e. 0.001%) of all asteroids, that was plentiful enough to pull in a fairly respectable income (but notably only plentiful enough to keep a small ship running). Gemstones could sometimes (albeit rarely) be found where industrial diamonds were. This gave industrial diamond mining one advantage over nickel-iron mining, as gemstones from space were highly prized on Vulcan and were worth a great deal more on the market than their planet-originating counterparts. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

Clan Ships

This house built and launched a small but respectable fleet of seven ships with which to mine for industrial diamond and gemstones in asteroids. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

• Gelevesh (taken as a prize of war by the Nashih)
• Rasha (destroyed)
• Urekh (destroyed)

Members

Nomikh’s Family

• Alieth
• Hanesh
• Nomikh (head of House)
• Nomikh’s wife
• Pekev (own-child)
• T'Aria
• T'Vei (married in)
• Tasav

Appendices

References

• TOS novel: Spock's World