Following the anti-drug cartel action at the Taurian Arms manufacturing plant, Dixie secured new allies in her mission to protect the Texas Tech campuses scattered throughout western and central Texas.  The Odessa-Midland Petroplex had been a major center of power generation, industry, and trade before the Second Great Depression and the Drug Wars.  It still had power in its bones, and those bones answered when Dixie asked for support.  The cartels did not enjoy it.