Contrary to popular belief, Siobhan could actually keep it in her pants and concentrate on work. Despite the fact that she found bureaucratic details to be rather tedious, especially if she was not able to swiftly cut through red tape by yelling at people and thus motivating them to double their efforts.
Regardless Siobhan spent the next few hours scouring the fallen "People's Warlord's" palace and what passed for a Ministry of Economics for records. As she found out, record-keeping had been awfully haphazard, which came as no surprise given the fact that there had been such a rapid turnover of leaders and what passed for bureaucrats had to a great degree been appointed due to cronyism. Moreover, apparently a few days ago there had been a fire in the Ministry and while it had been put out, a good deal of paperwork had been destroyed and as a consequence some of the more competent clerks had been framed as traitors and hanged.
"Note to self. Should I against all odds ever become the tyrant of a backwater planet...I will not randomly shoot competent minions. Because if I do I'll be left with morons and lackeys just waiting to jump ship when people with bigger guns come along to topple me. Leading to be ending up in goal, beheaded or with a blaster bolt in my head, renedering me unable to focus on truly important things. Like building unnecessarily grandiose statues to my glory or having fun with my harem," Siobhan muttered to herself. The surviving clerks gave her weird looks, but a stern glare from her made sure they scurried back to work, making sense of the mess of paperwork. It was not in their interests to piss off someone who could toss them around like ragdolls.
It was an important lesson that any Evil Overlord would appreciate. Regardless after enough searching and yelling at bureaucrats Siobhan finally got a report together and gathered the most important details on a datapad, with the surviving original records being sent to the command centre. Apparently a few mines had been depleted due the constant need to fund the civil war on the part of the warlords, but more than enough were still filled with gold to make the conquest worth it. A report mentioned two mines on the southern continent that had not been surveyed at all yet.
Judging by the number of strikes and revolts, the workers were underpaid. One report buried in a vault spoke about deplorable conditions and how many were malnourished. The bureaucraut who'd written was later found on a list of recent executions. Production had been kept up by the muzzle of a blaster. No doubt a pay raise would improve morale, though whether the regime change would actually lead to a significant improvement in living conditions was doubtful.
