Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1170080-20150716135818

My personal theory is that Rose made Steven so the Crystal Gems would grow mentally faster. Rose propably knew that Homeworld would came back to Earth, but she also knew that the Crystal Gem would not grow if she would aorund there always be the big strong Gem.

This could be true since i don't believe that salty Pearl five-year-old Amethyst and cold-to-humans Garnet would stand up against the Homeworld, sure they had all these magicial abilities but there personal strength wasn't strong enough, which is more important in fighting.

So my theory basicly states that Rose wanted the Crystal Gems to be stronger without her, so she gave up her physical from to do this.

(The only thing is though if she had an solo Encounter with an Homeworld Gem, maybe Peridot, and saw how advanced they are.) 