  I discuss how to access dense baryonic matter of compact stars by combining
hidden local symmetry (HLS) of light-quark vector mesons with spontaneously
broken scale invariance of a (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone boson, dilaton, in a
description that parallels the approach to dilatonic Higgs. Some of the
surprising observations are that the bulk of proton mass is not
Nambu-Goldstonian, parity doubling emerges at high density and the EoS of
baryonic matter can be soft enough for heavy-ion processes at low density and
stiff enough at high density for $\sim 2$ solar mass neutron stars.
