Editing Order of the Pointed Word (section)

===Origins===
Dar-al-Rashid is a world of salt and sand. The majority of its surface is covered by a hypersaline ocean known as the Bone Sea. While the saltiness of the ocean renders it dangerous for humans, it is nevertheless home to a number of primitive alien life forms, primarily crustaceans. The world has a single continent, Amira, which runs vertically through the planets eastern hemisphere, stretching from pole to pole. The entire continent is covered in a scorching desert. Life never crawled up from the ocean depths on Dar-al-Rashid and the deserts are completely lifeless, save for the human settlements which dot the coasts.

The inhospitable world would have likely never been colonized were it not for its vital location. Dar-al-Rashid is located on a point in space known to the Navis Nobilite as the Silver Junction, a place where several stable warp routes intersect with one another. When this junction was discovered by the rogue trader Safar al-Rashid, he swiftly established a colony on the world to safeguard local trade, as well as to line his pockets with a fee charged to each ship passing by the world. To see to its defense, he arranged for Canoness Salwa el-Hammad and her small preceptory of battle sisters to be reorganized into the order of the Pointed
Word and deployed to the world.