Turmoil soon erupted within the Ōtsutsuki Clan. Having embarked on a path to godhood stripped of kindness and morality, those seeking greatness soon turned on their weaker clansmen.
After all, rather than searching Outer Space for a living planet to subjugate and seize, wasn't it more reasonable to turn the "useless" into nourishment directly?
Those Ōtsutsuki unqualified for godhood could only become servants to those with the potential to ascend, their lives entirely at their masters' mercy.
This should have been stopped at all costs, yet the Ōtsutsuki leader made it policy, and the entire clan agreed!
Their blind worship of gods made them accept this as the only path.
Of course, this "wise" leader also realized that having the entire clan pursue godhood would lead to one result—
The Ōtsutsuki would cease to value their clan and families. As each pursued godhood, they would drift farther apart, their competition for resources leading to indifference and even outright hostility.
As time passed, far from expanding, the Ōtsutsuki Clan began losing members at an alarming rate.
Their civilization also began to change. Hierarchy within the clan became brutally rigid, friends and family no longer mattered, and relationships were reduced to those between masters and servants.
Not only were no new children being born, but clansmen were also dying in the pursuit of fruits... Of course, no one knew whether they had fallen to danger or to their own kin, though everyone understood in their hearts.
But Kaguya knew perfectly well why their leader had made this decision: he was certain that he would be the one to become a god!
Thus, even as he encouraged this competition among his clansmen, he guarded against infighting by constantly reinforcing the absolute authority of rank.
All to prevent anyone beneath him from challenging him