Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26230034-20150321194653

Hello guys and gals. I have been watching the wiki closely now and I just signed up to share a theory of my own about the Great War and the aftermath.

The idea of so few gems surviving from the great war intact always used to bug me. If Rose and co. had won the war, how come so few of them survived the effort. "It was a brutal war" you could say it could happen. Well that might be but after hearing Jasper's praise for Rose's tactics, I refuse to believe she would use blunt tactics that would put her troops in danger against what must have been a crushing majority. But as we all know a few of his friends survived and thanks to her shield thanks to her shied as told to us by Greg. The rest had become gem monsters and crystal gems have been trying to contain them ever since.

This was all fine and dandy but there is always the question of why home world just didn't send reinforcements even though they thought the Earth gems were wiped out and reclaim the planet from the few remaining guardians of the Earth?

Because they nuked and forgot! Basically my theory is that Homeworld gems, deciding the planet was more trouble than it's worth, decided to use the gem equivilant of nuclear bombs (possibly the geodes we had seen from earlier episodes) and crush the resistance once and for all but also made the planet inhabitably for the gems in the process. Some of them were simply wiped out, some of them were mutated into the gem monsters of the present (possibly an unintended side effect seeing they were not expecting survivors) and few of those who were lucky enough to be around Rose at the time, namely Pearl and Garnet had survived. That is why Peridot was so sure that all the Gems were wiped out because authorities were not expecting survivors after such a maelstrom of death and destruction (by Garnet's own words).

So what do you think guys? Can it be? I don' think it is too far-fetched, seeing Rebecca Sugar previously worked on Adventure Time which also supposedly featured a post-apocalytic setting in which inhabitants had mutated into a surprisingly colorful array of characters.

Edit: Reposting here since this place seems more lively and suitable for discussion. Sorry if this counts as spam. 