Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25539649-20150628221235

I'm probably the only person who thinks this, but I have a feeling that the gem homeworld doesn't actually care about earth. Or at least not putting earth on top of their priority list.

The reason why I think this comes from the episode 'Marble madness'. After Pearl gives her "We are the crystal gems!" Speech, Peridot just blankly stares back at them and asks "The crystal gems?" Let's think about that for a second. The crystal gems are basically people that formed a rebellion, chose humans over their own kind, probably killed HUNDREDS of homeworld soldiers, and Peridot doesn't know about them? Unless she flunked gem-history class, something's not right here.

Plus, when Peridot does report on them, homeworld sends ONE war veteran (Jasper) and a singal warship to deal with them. Don't you think homeworld would send more gems and firepower to deal with the crystal gems? Heck, Peridot even says that the whole point of going to earth was to "check the cluster" and NOT bring back traitors of homeworld.

So here's my take in all of this. After the end of the gem war, homeworld decided that if Rose really wanted a big ball of dirt and saltwater, she could have it. So they left earth and moved on. Thousands of years later, they decide to see if Rose and the other crystal gems were still alive. (Peridot mentioned that the red eye from the second episode "didn't pick up any gems on this plant.") After that, they sent Peridot to reactivate the kindergarten and check on the cluster. Once Peridot reported that there WERE gems on earth, they decide to just send Jasper to deal with it.

I wouldn't be too surprised if Sardonyx, a possible new gem coming, turns out to be some type of bounty hunter/mercenary/gun for hire that homeworld decided to hire so they wouldn't  waste resources on earth.

But that's just my opinion/headcannon, what do you guys think? 