K, just checking.
You can't tell the emperors to not stand in your self-justifiable sunlight, when it's the night all over most other peoples' perception.
That's just psychotic.
You whisper in their ear when they're asleep instead:
everyone will abandon you in the end, because you obstruct all the sunlight.
If that doesn't work, then you assasin the emperors and establish new ones more likely to listen to the vox populi.
Or so the tellings go.
Hard to give a damn when history is repeating itself for the same covert and sometimes overt reasons over and over.