An emission of energy that a sufficiently-conscious organism receives invokes the etiquette of the gift; namely, (1) that the gift must be received and used up, and (2) that the favor must be returned, even, in the tradition of the Potlatch, increased in the returning gesture (Bataille, The Accursed Share). The Sun, to our simultaneous chagrin and infinite gratitude, is the ultimate giver and as such disrupts conventional notions of exchange- we puzzle at the question of returning the favor as our Sun continually grants and sustains the very life which contemplates the question.
At every moment we find ourselves in massive and continuous accrual of a troublesome solar debt. Given the opportunity, we would need to honor our increasing obligation to sacrifice our lives to the Sun by launching ourselves into Her (our current space expeditions being rather misguided in trajectory). Thus we are, by nature, fixedly at Her mercy. In the sunless depths, the anglerfish notices Her absence and revels in it, proceeding to assume the role Herself, hence exploiting a natural phenomenon and opportunity available to us all: that of solar authority.