Vulcan High Command

In the 22nd century, the Vulcan High Command was the most powerful governmental body on planet Vulcan, its de facto military] government.

Prior to Federation membership
During the 22nd century, the High Command was an organization responsible for overseeing the Vulcan military as well as civilian organizations.

Organizations

 * Vulcan Diplomatic Corps
 * Vulcan Intelligence
 * Vulcan Ministry of Information
 * Vulcan Science Directorate

History
In May 2153, the High Command ordered Subcommander T'Pol (via Ambassador Soval) to return to Vulcan rather than join Enterprise on its mission into the Delphic Expanse. T'Pol resigned her commission rather than obey.

In 2154, V'Las, the head of the High Command, planned to attack Andoria, believing that they were developing a planet killer based on Xindi technology. Following that incident, V'Las' High Command was disbanded, ending their diplomatic influence of Earth's decisions.

Later that year, T'Pau replaced V'Las as head minister of the Vulcan people. She assumed responsibility over Vulcan's military structure, including many of its warships. She actively began to restructure the military, and those vessels that remained in service no longer had full crew complements (many of whom were still sympathetic to the old High Command and left rather than serve the new leadership). During the incident with the Romulan drone-ship, T'Pau was only able to dispatch 23 vessels to add to the combined Andorian-Human-Tellarite intercept fleet.

Federation-era history
By the 23rd and 24th centuries, the High Command of Vulcan would fill a very different role, as the planet was a Federation member.

Vulcan Space Central was maintained by the High Command that oversaw all incoming and outgoing ship activity near Vulcan.

The Command would continue to help maintain Vulcan security and defense, as well as other internal matters, including the V'Shar.

Even after becoming a Federation member, Vulcan still maintained its own fleet of ships.

In 2376 a group of people reformed the High Command. In 2376 the newly formed Vulcan Command Council decided to launch a new type of cruiser, visually it would be identical to the D'Kyr class of old, this new class would be called the Soval Class

Post Federation-Era History
In 2383 The High Command seceded from the Federation for several reasons. Building for well over a hundred years since the Vulcan Ministries chose to take a more active role in the federation, but were being limited by the needs for resources by starfleet and the new Federation and the Axanar Crisis. The Axanar Crisis in 2253 was the first serious debate about leaving the Federation but was dismissed as most of the council still thought that the Federation needed the guidance of the Vulcan High Command.

Post Rejoined Federation History
In 2401 the High Command rejoined the Federation after some lengthy negotiations. The new stipulations of the agreement allowed the Vulcans to maintain an active fleet and continue their own business as a semi-autonomous power within the Federation. This allowed the Vulcans to continue their own alliances and maintain their own fleet for those that did not wish to join Starfleet. This also allowed the Vulcans to share their own advancements in technology with other federations members, As long as it did not break any of their own treaties with shared technology.