One desert settlement was home to the Knights of Silver Dawn, a group of mercenaries who worked for profit, some of which went to supply their impoverished human community on Wind. Additionally, the Knights supplied other settlements in the wastelands of Wind, such as spring village. Water supply was not an issue for the Knights' home as it was originally established as an artificial oasis.
Towards the end of the High Republic Era, new biological water-purifying technology relied on enigmatic tenebrae as its primary component. However, enigmatic tenebrae was a deadly biological hazard, a drop of which could pollute an entire oasis and poison a hundred thousand to death. Around 200 BBY, Wind's southern had just switched to the new water-purifying equipment, and relied on the Knights to deliver a shipment of enigmatic tenebrae from Land, the capital of the Aakaash system.
Li Yu, the leader of the Knights, thus sent the elite red apricot squad to handle the matter. Leaving their on Wind, the squad traced the lost shipment to Fire, the space station city that had been serving as an indispensable transit point between Wind and Earth for two thousand years. However, they discover that the Jade Rats had stolen the shipment and sold it to the Blue Dragon pirates, prompting red apricot squad, amongst them An Ping, Lu Nan, Xu Bo, Zhuang Yuanying, and Sean, a Blue Dragon–affiliated asteroid stronghold located in the nearby Lake asteroid field.