Talk:Centipeetle Mother/@comment-26232675-20150322115423/@comment-26236445-20150323122320

That would explain the massive number of holes in Kindergarten; the Strawberry Field was evidently the site of a huge battle, but the destruction doesn't seem severe enough to have been the stage for a fight with that many full-fledged gems.

Though on the other hand, the vacant holes did all look humanoid-shaped, and Pearl's remark about the monsters being corruped gems seems to imply there was a point where they weren't like that.

Maybe the corruption was caused by the Homeworld Gems during the revolution? In that case I'd guess it was some last-ditch attack, or a scorched earth tactic done simply out of spite once they started losing during the Crystal Gems' last stand. Rose just grabbing whoever she could in time and shielding them from whatever caused it would explain how a battle that big only had 4/5 survivors on the winning side. Maybe that's why Peridot was surprised to see surviving Crystal Gems on a planet that the CGs successfully retook.