The Hiltonian military junta referred to a group of senior officers within the military forces of the Hiltone Republic who had seized control of the democratically-elected national lawyte. Declaring war on the so-called "Starborne Ones" Laera Reyolé and Silas Dan'kre, the junta attempted to seize them, however they escaped into the Great Western Forest with the aid of Eldarch Bellinega T'Ledra. Manipulated behind the scenes by Youngarch Pelenora T'Yelc, the junta had attempted to assert Hiltonian dominance over the Sa'ari homeworld of T'lessia immediately prior to planetwide elections.