Editing Velatine Federal Republic (section)

===Early Republic Era===

The few years of peace and development after the rebellions was broken by the scion of the ousted Musafir Family, who purchased  the services of a mercenary group (one with ties to the former Word of Blake, and so eager to abandon the Inner Sphere) with the intention of overthrowing the President and taking over the nation - an attempted swift strike turned into a larger war, especially when the enemy mercenary leader began cutting deals with pirates - the pirates would strike at marked targets in exchange for being allowed to keep loot and salvage. The enemy coalition would also gain the usage of some outer pirate planets as a base of operations. As the Stradioti was on tour in the IS at the moment of the first strike the war started as difficult for the VFR - however they managed to hold on long enough for the Stradioti to make a counter attack, the war ended with a full invasion of the pirate planets.