Talk:Off Colors (group)/@comment-26618197-20170614123840/@comment-31509668-20170628065032

@ThaddeusSeas

Possible but highly unlikely. There seems to be an assumption that every high ranking gem must be part of a Diamond's court but remember that there were only four Diamonds, now three. The Gem race must number in the billions, if not trillions, spread across multiple planets in multiple galaxies. A Diamond's court can only support so many members before it becomes unwieldy.

There are probably high ranking gems who serve Diamonds but are not part of their court. Jasper, for example, served Yellow Diamond but was not a member of her court. Jasper was a soldier under Yellow Diamond and was given assignments that routinely took her off Homeworld. Peridot also served Yellow Diamond but was not a court member either. Yellow Diamond was very dismissive of Peridot in a way that suggests that Yellow Diamond had numerous Peridots serving her in technical positions. And let's not forget Holly Blue Agate who was administrator of the Human zoo.

Being an empire there are doubtless gems who serve as planetary governors, solar system administrators, galactic overseers, etc. These gems would be very high in the gem strata. Perhaps high enough to even own their own Pearls and have entourages. A Morganite might be a gem occupying one of these positions.

While kings and queens have courts, so do lords, barons, dukes and a whole host of nobility. Rhodonite's components might have served one of these lower level but still high strata gems.