Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26189598-20150411152007/@comment-25021853-20150417134418

I, too have had a theory along similar lines, except I hadn't considered the possibility that the Gems were reacting to a crisis when they came to Earth and created the Kindergarten(s). I was thinking they were just an expansionist Empire, but given what Rebecca Sugar said about them not being villains in the traditional sense, your theory about them reacting out of desperation makes more sense, especially as they could have likely found plenty of uninhabited planets they could have used to mine for the raw materials if they had the time to keep looking (or it may be that the target planet needs to have life on it, if not necessarily intelligent life, to draw on when forming replacement gems).

Of course, the way Amethyst tells it in On The Run, she had no existence prior to waking up in her Hole one day fully formed (if a bit overcooked) and I get the feeling that most of the Gems made in the Kindergarten were force grown worker gems, though some of them may get used to fix corrupted Gems, once they got good at it they would grow some Blank Gems and use a device to transfer the essence of a corrupted Gem into a blank Gem of the same kind.

As for Rose creating Steven to surpass her and do things no Gem could do (in addition to being because she loved/loves Greg), I've been thinking that too, and I bet that Steven successfully heals a corrupted Gem in the episode "Reformed" coming up. I think Stevonnie in Alone Together  points to something else I'd love to see and hope we see happen. What if Steven fusing with Connie kind of "primed" her and now Connie can fuse with the Crystal Gems, and it happens by accident while they are practicing fusion dances and Connie is standing in for Steven who has a broken leg. Maybe it would have to be someone who has fused with Steven as well (what I'd love to see is an episode where it's Steven's Birthday and he is formally introduced to Ruby and Sapphire and tries fusing with them and has his first successful gem fusion with Ruby and then Sapphire too.  Then they are dancing for fun and having a good time and Connie trips but Sapphire catches her and they laugh and Connie fused with Sapphire), but if it worked then Steven could prime other humans by fusing with them, and then they could fuse with full Gems too, greatly increasing their power. Or Steven could find a way to imbue inert Earth gems with whatever it is that gives the Alien Gems life, then fuse those gems with humans and create a small army of (willing volunteers mind you) Human/Gem Hybrids like him. Of course, healing all the damaged and corrupted Gems bubbled in the Temple Burning Room would be even better, but he could do both and have a proper chance of getting the Homeworld Gems to listen to him and let him heal and fix all the corrupted Homeworld Gems too. I'd love it if he is also able to deal with Jasper and allow poor Lapis to be free of her duty as jailer.