Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25539649-20150125130827

Most people take their shot at why the crystal gems are afraid of their homeworld. Here's my take on it.

When the gems travel through space for the first time, they find out that most planets are filled with hate, war, and inequality. They decide to take over these worlds to create and promote order and peace. Now these conquered alien races follow extremely harsh rules/laws that are even punishable by death. On top of that, while the gem empire wishes to stop war by any means necessary, they ignore ordinary crime. This leaves alien races at the mercy of underground gang lords and mobsters. In short, the gem empire thinks that they're the heroes in this story, the protectors of peace, the good guys. When in reality they're doing way more harm than good. The CRYSTAL gems are basically the rebellion trying to stop this tyrannical empire.

What do you guys think about this theory? 