Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25539649-20150210205325/@comment-23837455-20150212015038

I like the idea of a villian who isn't cold or ruthless, a gem who truly cares about their fellow gems and wants to  do anything they can to protect there species (a la general zod or since she's already here, the queen of blades) it's just that part of that means exploiting other planets like earth, I suspect the homeworld gems view other life forms like humans view animals, and that they think they still serve the greater good by serving themselves.

A darker take on this could be that Rose's rebellion could have been disastrous for Gem kind as a whole and while Rose was unaware of this having cut off earth from gem controlled space, damage to the gem homeworld or perhaps the loss of kindergarten could have wreaked havoc on there civilization (which might also explain why it's taken them so long to come back?) and so now the gems are finally turning there attention back to earth, vengeful for the percieved betrayl and despeate to rebuild.