Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25480732-20141003134942/@comment-5127065-20150202140130

Nerdboxnox wrote: If you want more info to put towards this, try listening to what Ronaldo says at the end of "Keep Beach City Wierd". His theory already is correct in some ways, for example, when Ronaldo says " How did I never see this before! *peers at dollar bill* I know what the diamond means...Polymorphic sentient rocks!". The gems humanoid forms are shown to be extensions of themselves, like holograms, and recede inside their gems when they are injured. The gems basically are polymorphic sentient rocks. Now, assuming this was a hint that the rest of what he says is true, we learned quite a few things from this episode. "th ey're here to hollow out the Earth! It's part of the great Diamond Authority! They’ll take on any form, you can read all about it on my blog!!" This basically is saying the gems were at one point tasked with hollowing the earth, and it was part of a "great diamond authority". Now, i'm guessing this means the one who made the decision to hollow out earth was none other than a gem named Diamond, who was an authoritative figure to the gems. Heres where my theory begins. The leader of gemkind decided gem warriors needed to become unstoppable (or a catastrophy happened), and so for some reason a planet that harbored a lot of natural gems was needed (maybe gem beings are made from actual gems in some way, and so more actual gems were needed to make new gem warriors). This led to the gems mining the earth, to the point of endangering the life on it in some way, hence "hollowing out the earth". Diamond, the leader of gem kind is the one who decided to do this, despite it leading to the death of every being on earth. Rose Quartz was shown to be extremely entranced with earth life in "Lion 3"  and would probably have realized how much would be sacrificed in Diamond's plan, so she would obviously try to oppose Diamond. Now, what if the great gem war was over the fate of earth and gemkind, with the crystal gems being in favor of earth (in a sort of autobots-esque humanity is still young and deserves a chance type of stuff) while the other gems being in favor of either saving their race/ becoming an unstoppable force (very decepticon-eque, haha). This is why Lapis talks as if the Crystal Gems had no reason to help her, because lapis lazuli is not a crystal. The war obviously caused all of the fractured gems, because if a gem warrior wanted to destroy another gem warrior they know that their gem is the only way to truly destroy them, so they would all be attacking eachothers gems. This leads to the actual war happening (at least in part) on Earth, which is why the fractured and broken gems are on the planet, leading to them trying to manifest and only being able to manage corrupt segments of their former selves.

One question is left standing now: isnt diamond a crystal? wouldnt diamond then be on the side of earth? well, this is the only part that confuses me. It could be that Diamond betrayed the Crystal Gems, or that the Crystal Gems betrayed diamond, only after seeing Rose Quartz's appeal to earth life.

Im guessing after the war, the only gems left were the cast of the show, and Rose. Rose had tried to heal the fractured gems from the war, but to no avail. She might have given up on trying to ressurect gemkind, and instead then made it her and the other remaining gems' mission to protect earth life from the monsters that became of their kind. Steven was probably concieved in a sort of "passing of the torch" type symbolism, Rose probably also wanted to better understand the life of humans, and in concieving Steven, her essence lives on as what she held dear.

Hopefully this will all be explained in the show later on, I sure can't wait until it all comes together :P

EDIT: a possible look at what Diamond looks like, and the account of the war can be seen inside the pyramid walls. That theory would explain a lot, it would also explain why Pearl and Garnet are so afraid of the Gems returning to Earth.