Just how crap was this Empress at being Empress?
At least make up some sort of reasonable backstory beyond "there's this bad guy who made her do all the bad things after she fought for a bit too much" (the bad guy who incidentally also comes with a default bad guy character design as opposed to all the good guys) ... oh, and we only care about the "collection of generic named pseudo love interests" (whose existence is pointless as anyone not a complete idiot knows whom she'll end up with anyways), nobody gives a crap about all the commoners who died in her wars or whatever. Of course.