S'task was a male Vulcan who lived during the Time of Awakening.

BiographyEdit

He was born on the planet Vulcan at a time when the philosopher Surak began preaching his philosophy of peace and logic. S'task eventually met him and sought to become his student though he was refused at first before finally being accepted. As peace and logic began to spread on their world, the planet was visited by visitors from the Orion race. Surak was intended to meet them at ShiKahr but was detained at a port facility whilst S'task met them. Rather than be benevolent visitors, the aliens captured all the representatives and took them to their orbiting slave ships. S'task attempted to preach peace to them but was eventually forced to use his talents and psychic arts to kill his captors and escape to the surface of Vulcan after inciting a riot on the slave ships amongst the captured Vulcans. These encounters changed S'task's opinion and theology which was traced to his capture by Orions in 22 BCE.

After the Ahkkh ended the invaders driven, the divide between S'task and his mentor grew due to their different beliefs. Eventually, S'task decided to leave his home world and journey to the stars in search for a new planet. Taking Eighty Thousand followers, they prepared to leave the Mother World behind in search for a new beginning. S'task's poem, Last Song was the second most translated poem on Vulcan. Before he departed on the Vulcan starship Rea's Helm, he was met by a figure at the docks which was his mentor who carried 3 swords made by the smith S'harien with Surak asking his former student to take care of them on the journey after which began the Vulcan-in-Exile. Over the course of the journey, two were lost in the flight whilst a single one was placed in a chair during the Exile Council journey through space. Whilst journeying through space, a mutated strain of diseases erupted amongst the fleet which was responsible for claiming S'task's wife and children. S'task himself almost succumbed to death but managed to survive. He would also grow bitter over the years at the thought of him and his comrades dying in the cold of space. He would, however, be one of the few leaders that managed to reach a new home world that would be known as Romulus. Upon arrival at his new home world, S'task laid the cornerstone of the Romulan Senate building, a structure that stood the lengths of time in later eras. (TOS novels: The Romulan Way, Vulcan's Soul, Exiles)

He later cared for Solor, the son of Karatek who had been banished to Remus where they were made to work by dominant members within Romulan politics. Fatally wounded, he helped the young Solor and returned him to his family but was incapable of ending Karatek's exile. (TOS novels: Vulcan's Soul, Epiphany) By right, he used to attend the meetings of the Grand Council on Romulus. He bore witness to the rise of the T'Rehu who sought complete control over the Council but S'task simply departed the chambers without asking leave from her. During the second meeting with her, he did this once again and did not respond to T'Rehu's command which led to her commanding her guards to end S'task's life. Thus, he was murdered at the age of 248 on the floor of the very Romulan Senate that he'd helped to build, by the mad "Ruling Queen" T'Rehu, who felt threatened by S'task's standing and his opposition to her plans of dominion. Many Romulans attended her coronation despite the fact that she was S'task's murderer - this was because his influence and power waned over the years after the settlement of Romulus leading to the thought that they believed he was necessary only during the journey through space. (TOS novel: The Romulan Way)

QuotesEdit

• "I am Vulcan, bred to peace." (TOS novel: The Romulan Way)
• "When people think an idea is theirs, they take it so much the more to heart than if they think they got it from someone else, or worse, followed a great public trend. There is nothing people want to do more than to follow great trends, and nothing they want less to seem to be doing." (TOS novel: The Romulan Way)
• "You may do so. That is the prerogative of force. But I give no honor to force. Powers, yes. But you have no power, none that I recognize. I ask no leave of you." - S'task to T'Rehu who said she would kill him (TOS novel: The Romulan Way)
• "The beginning is contaminated, and force will not avail you, or it." - S'task to T'Rehu. (TOS novel: The Romulan Way)

AppearancesEdit

• TOS novel: The Romulan Way
• TOS novel: Spock's World
• TOS novel: Vulcan's Soul: Exiles
• TOS novel: Vulcan's Soul: Epiphany