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DepleatingHearts wrote: @ShayneT I thought the gems were just finding all different shards that had been destroyed on both sides of the war. The reason why they were doing that was because shards could become courputed, no matter what side they were on, and possibly hurt the Earth.

Again, this might've been explained in an episode and I'm just forgetting. The monsters they fight are not gem shards they are gems with corrupted and deformed gems that is why most of them look nothing like a gem but the gem cluster were gems they are not dead and a gem is never considered dead but without proper gem tech or proper power aka Stevens healing they can't be brought back yet and until Steven can find a way to help them they will be considered destroyed.