Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26808654-20150317050143

What happens when you cross a sleep deprived Evtini with a Steven Universe forum? A late night theory! (I normally avoid posting more than one per day but it's night and I'm not getting sleep anytime soon)

It's something that's bugged me early in the series: how do the Gems know what missions to go on? Who's assigning them?

Garnet is a possible answer. She has future vision and all. Still, future vision doesn't exactly mean going on missions cause you saw them in the future.

Next bit of evidence: Sugolite's debut episode. The Gems were trying to destroy towers that had suddenly begun emitting bursts of electromagnetic interference. Garnet sums it up to "it's hurting television." Seems to me like it's jamming signals. Now if I was on the run, I'd see this as a good thing. Bad signal means Homeworld gems will have a harder time reaching me. If anything, I'd be increasing the jam. But what if it was putting the Gems in a different bad spot: stopping the signals they actually need from whoever's assigning them missions. They'd have to destroy those things as fast as possible, which is why Garnet would risk fusing with Amethyst.

But who could it be? Onion? What if it's another gem? Rose had an army, correct? What if one of them was in charge of tactics and operations? That gem did little actual fighting and survived the war. Said gem operated from a distance, scooping the scene and giving orders from behind.

But if this was true, why haven't we seen this anonymous helper? Oh, well I don't know. I guess this theory is busted- BUT I CAN EXPLAIN THAT! We're seeing this show more or less through Steven's eyes aren't we? The Gems would likely want to hide this from him. Originally, they didn't want him to know about the war or other gems. They didn't even want him on missions. Naturally they'd try to keep him away from the war director. Since Steven doesn't know about this person and doesn't know how the Gems know what missions to do, neither do we.

So now you're wondering where this person might be. I've got two guesses: A space station or Canada. Why a space station? Tactical position. Gives a good view of the planet. Why Canada? I can't think of good reason but the general consensus is that's where Peridot landed. If so, then what better time than this to introduce the mysterious gem helper. Steven knows about gem monsters and the war so they don't have a reason not to tell him anymore. And if this person has a working communication device, Peridot would likely go there to signal Homeworld.

If this becomes canon, I totally called it. 