Destruction of Vulcan

The Romulan miner Nero, who had lost his world to the supernova of 2387, was thrown back in time with his ship, the Narada. His arrival in 2233 destroyed the USS Kelvin and split history into a new reality, the Kelvin timeline. After waiting for the Spock of his own era to follow him through the rift, Nero marooned the elder Spock on Delta Vega in 2258 and set out to avenge Romulus.

Responding to a distress call from Vulcan, a hastily assembled Starfleet fleet was ambushed and annihilated, with only the new USS Enterprise surviving. Nero lowered a drilling platform into Vulcan's crust and dropped red matter into the planet's core, creating a black hole that consumed the world. The young Spock rescued members of the High Council, including his father Sarek, but his mother Amanda died during the evacuation.

Only about ten thousand of Vulcan's roughly six billion inhabitants survived. Nero then turned on Earth, but Kirk and Spock stopped him over San Francisco and destroyed the Narada. The surviving Vulcans, aided by the elder Spock, set out to found a new colony.