If that was what had happened in the other timeline...Julian just stared, because the idea of an entire core world, billions of people, gone--Vulcans, aside from those in Starfleet, were rather insular, they didn't leave their world...if there'd been any kind of warning, Starfleet would've responded, and evacuated as many people as they could, but the survivors would still be a fraction of the population.

He's obviously reeling from the idea, but his mind can't stop running with what would have happened--he murmurs to himself, sounding dazed.

"...they created an alternate timeline. Our relations with the Klingons were rocky at best, a hundred years ago, they would have..."

He takes a shaky breath, and draws his hand down over his mouth. "We're not...Starfleet has always been a defense force, on top of the scientific, humanitarian, and exploratory missions...of course the Federation wouldn't have approved, we don't attack other powers. Not without provocation."