Old House Yehenik

Old House Yehenik was among the nobler Vulcan Houses of the planet Vulcan.

History

House Yehenik was anciently involved with trade. In the centuries before the extermination of House Velekh as the Vulcan civilisation’s smaller city-states grew and goods began to be traded between them, House Yehenik ran the caravans that went back and forth between the tiny outposts. The great difficulty with handling many such caravans at a time had proved to be nigh impossible without communications, as otherwise there was no way to predict when goods would arrive (early, on time or late) and where they were in transit. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

Lord Evekh’s forefathers solved this problem by acquiring as many individuals as they could who had the talent of clear mindspeech at a distance (telepathy). They bred the talent true through a selective breeding program that increased its power and honed its training until the talent (previously limited to being triggered accidentally under stress) became a predictable and manageable power that one could deliberately operate over thousands of miles. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

After some centuries, the demand all over the planet (except in one regard) for House Yehenik’s mental adepts made it so rich and powerful that the house abandoned the trade/transportation side of their House to concentrate on psi-communications technologies alone. By the time Lord Evekh was Head of House, he and his family came to regret allowing the transportation side of their House to fall into decline, as the house became somewhat reduced in wealth and status and had somewhat fallen from its early grandeur. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

Attempting to regain the standing his house had lost, Lord Evekh allied his house with that of Lady Suvin (then Head of High House Velekh). Lady Suvin agreed to give House Yehenik a cut of the profits when Lord Evekh exchanged all his psi-communications mental adepts (and the breeding/training program) to Lady Suvin to expedite the launch of starships to mine the mineral-rich T'Khut. Forced to also give Lady Suvin all his Last Thought adepts (as she planned to use those with the killing-gift as weapons against her enemies), Lord Evekh begrudgingly agreed to bond his daughter T'Thelaih to Lady Suvin’s grandson Mahak to those ends. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

When T'Thelaih discovered the true reason for her bonding, she went mad with rage and lashed out with her killing power, exterminating not only Lady Suvin's entire High House, but all the psi-communication adepts as well. Consequently setting back the first manned landing on T'Khut by fifty standard years as those who tried afterwards were forced to breed for and rediscover psi-communications technology all over again. (TOS novel: Spock's World)

Known Members

• Lady Evekh
• Lord Evekh (Head of House around 855 B.C.)
• T'Thelaih (right-line child)

Appendices

References

• TOS novel: Spock's World