In the Rihannsu novels that we going to be canonised if enterprise had got another season, the Vulcans didnt have ftl due to being in more or less a state of constant nuclear war.
When Surak unified Vulcan after an Orion Pirates invasion, his student broke with him over the destruction of Vulcan culture he was proposing and instead decided to control Vulcan behaviour with rituals and a rigid social structure.
They then piled into slower than light starships and spent a century losing most of their ships before landing and recommencing slightly less nuclear war.
They got ftl after a United Earth ship got too close.
The Vulcans settled down and developed ftl the normal way.
In the Rihannsu novels that we going to be canonised if enterprise had got another season, the Vulcans didnt have ftl due to being in more or less a state of constant nuclear war.
When Surak unified Vulcan after an Orion Pirates invasion, his student broke with him over the destruction of Vulcan culture he was proposing and instead decided to control Vulcan behaviour with rituals and a rigid social structure.
They then piled into slower than light starships and spent a century losing most of their ships before landing and recommencing slightly less nuclear war.
They got ftl after a United Earth ship got too close.
The Vulcans settled down and developed ftl the normal way.