The shadowrunner’s smile fades slightly. "That’s the big question, isn’t it? Officially"—and he hits that word real hard—"its job is just what the name implies: liaison between Lone Star’s constabulary duty and the local military. It’s the ML group that’s supposed to coordinate crisis planning—civil defense crap, natural disasters, and all that. Should martial law ever be declared, the ML team is supposed to make sure Lone Star assets work with the National Guard or the army or whoever to prevent any overlap that would let anything fall through the cracks."