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| - Iliana Hilts (née Merko) was a Force-sensitive female Human who was a member of the Lost Tribe of Sith, the descendants of Human Sith who had become stranded on the Wild Space planet of Kesh during the Great Hyperspace War. Iliana became the leader of the Sisters of Seelah, which was a splinter cult that revered the memory of Seelah Korsin, the estranged wife of the Tribe's founder Yaru Korsin. In 3000 BBY, Iliana attempted to manipulate Caretaker Varner Hilts to give her and her faction political on Testament Day. This attempt failed after Hilts tricked her into believing that the holocron of Yaru Korsin, which contained Korsin's Testimony, would only activate on Testament Day.
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| - Iliana Hilts (née Merko) was a Force-sensitive female Human who was a member of the Lost Tribe of Sith, the descendants of Human Sith who had become stranded on the Wild Space planet of Kesh during the Great Hyperspace War. Iliana became the leader of the Sisters of Seelah, which was a splinter cult that revered the memory of Seelah Korsin, the estranged wife of the Tribe's founder Yaru Korsin. In 3000 BBY, Iliana attempted to manipulate Caretaker Varner Hilts to give her and her faction political on Testament Day. This attempt failed after Hilts tricked her into believing that the holocron of Yaru Korsin, which contained Korsin's Testimony, would only activate on Testament Day. During Testament Day, the Tribe discovered an older transmission beneath Korsin's Testament which revealed that the Lost Tribe were actually descended from slaves of the Red Sith which ruled the former Sith Empire. This development sparked the Great Crisis which resulted in much rioting and unrest across Keshtah Minor. Iliana herself took part in the fighting and wounded several rival Sith. However, the Sisters of Seelah quickly fell apart within two weeks to internal infighting and Iliana barely survived. She eventually made it to the Sith Temple which was built over the ancient starship Omen, which had brought the Tribe's ancient ancestors to Kesh in the first place. There she encountered Varner Hilts and his Keshiri assistant Jaye Vuhld, who were intent on discovering secrets that Korsin kept aboard the Omen which might hold the key to the Tribe's survival. After much difficulty, the three explorers discovered the Tapani heritage of the Lost Tribe's ancestors and learnt that Kesh had another continent known as Alanciar. Through these discoveries, Hilts was able to unite the various Sith factions and set the Tribe on a new mission of reaching and annexing this new continent. Hilts was unanimously elected by the other Sith as their new Grand Lord. Iliana subsequently became his wife, viewing this marriage as a means of sharing Hilts' power over the Tribe. While an ancient law stipulated that the consort of the Grand Lord was to be executed at the latter's death, Hilts vowed to protect her. During the Hilts Restoration, Iliana reigned with her husband Lord Hilts during the Hilts Restoration and supported his efforts to explore and colonize Alanciar. She later gave birth to a daughter named Takara Hilts, who shared her mother's bright red hair and fiery temperament. Takara was also Force-sensitive like her parents and would later become the Prefect of Police of the Tahv Constabulary by 2974 BBY. That same year, Takara prevented an assassination attempt against Grand Lord Hilts and apprehended the assassin Parlan Spinner, a Sith outcast. While Iliana and her daughter Takara desired Spinner's execution, Lord Hilts decided to spare the youth and sent him on an expeditionary mission to Eshkrene, in the planet's south pole. Spinner would later be responsible for freeing the ancient Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa which led to Dreypa's rebellion that devastated parts of Keshtah Minor. Iliana led the Tribe's forces against the rebels and inflicted heavy casualties on Dreypa's forces during the Battle of the Marisota Floodplain. Most of the Sith forces were later wiped out during the Battle of Sessal Spire by Dreypa's Leviathans, reptilian Sithspawn capable of draining the life energies and knowledge of sentient beings. Iliana was almost devoured by a leviathan but was rescued by Spinner, who subsequently joined forces with Takara and Kaliska of the Doomed to stop Dreypa. Iliana was greatly weakened by the Leviathan and as a resulted aged by several decades. Despite the loss of her fighting prowess, Iliana was still able to lead the defense of Tahv which marked the death and defeat of Dreypa. Following Dreypa's defeat, Spinner became a "hero" of the Tribe and began a romantic relationship with Iliana's daughter Takara.
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