"... why don't you think they're faking sunbursts to get the populous panicking?"
"Why reinvent the wheel? If it's already there, then why waste time and resources, and introduce the needless complexity of superfluous lies and deceptions?"
You find this sort of thing in, for example, "Napoleons", or the latest reincarnation of (rarely non-famous persons).
Just how many Cleopatras can we jam into the same space/time anyways?
Always an out of the rubber room, and you don't even have to move.