Yeah, when Surak was spreading his philosophies of logic and "passion's mastery" one of his former students was behind the movement to split off and travel to a new planet. Â They wanted to go back, basically, back to Vulcan's roots and not into this weakness of pacifism. Â They put a lot of detail into it, forming the generation ships, how it almost drained Vulcan's economy until they gave the task to the private sector to design the best ships and made it a competitive business thing.
mmm, there was this excellent book that I read recently and I can't remember what book it was, argh. Â But it was excellent, and went into detail about the leader of the Romulan people and how they created a new language by going back to Vulcan's archaic linguistic roots, and the sword, and man it was a good book now I can't remember what it was and its' going to drive me nuts.
oh..... I'm a star trek geek, I should know these things, going to drive me nuts until I can find it.
http://home.wxs.nl/~mbedaff/romulan.htmThat link gives you a breakdown.
ETA: Oh duh, it's "The Romulan Way" how stupid of me. I even remember now - I bought that book thinking it was a different book.
