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BlueBlaze64 The Watcher on the Tower from Empire City Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Watcher on the Tower
#40201: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:18:53 PM

There's probably going to end up being an episode that starts or ends with Steven asking Connie out on a date.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#40202: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:25:24 PM

Probably after she turns 13...age-appropriate, don't want to offend your viewers.

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#40203: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:25:55 PM

My personal theory about Gems is that they did originate by evolving naturally, as a species of sapient rocks, able to create Hard Light bodies to use as transportation. They originally reproduced by painstakingly preparing an area to be suited to trigger the Gem growth process (gemetic transfers may or may not be involved, depending on how Injectors work). Eventually, much like Humans are currently dabbling with genetic engineering, Gems learned that they could streamline the Gem-making process, as well as control the end result to be any specific Gem they wanted, optimized for one purpose in life and nothing more.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that naturally forming Gems do still occur, extremely rarely, and are shunned by society, being the Gem Caste System's equivalent to the Untouchables.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#40204: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:28:21 PM

Oooh, "gemetics"...hardy har har, bad stuff.

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#40205: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:29:21 PM

That is literally the term Peridot uses. Blame the Crewniverse, not me.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#40206: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:30:19 PM

[up][up][up]I image something like that happened. At the same time, I'll be surprised if we get more on where Gems come from besides the Diamonds were apparently the first ones.

edited 13th Aug '16 6:30:41 PM by LSBK

RokukeShiba Since: Nov, 2014
#40207: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:33:31 PM

I think Gems are like Ants, The Diamond is the queen with Gems created for her. Because they talk about workers and soldiers. Much like ants they are all female and they live in colonies. Be cool if there are male Gems but are kept secret since they are 1 in a billion and are kept under lock and key for their ability to help make new gems.

Of course its all in my head and thought it would be cool. I hope there is an episode where they talk more about gem reproducing and how they do it before the injectors came into being.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#40208: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:38:27 PM

Personally, I prefer the idea that gems are purely artificial in origin, while the diamonds are actually a totally different species whose origins are essentially impossible to discover.

Much like ants they are all female and they live in colonies.
Unlike ants, the "queen" is actually an authority figure, not just a Baby Factory.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#40209: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:38:45 PM

Considering how much resources they use, If the kindergartens are the gems "streamlining" the process, than natural gem reproduction has to be extremely, EXTREMELY inefficient. It'd be a wonder how they got through evolution at all. I mean, aside from how slow they reproduce ,it also seems like some gems would crack their gemstone just by getting hit by a wet towel.

edited 13th Aug '16 6:40:21 PM by xanderiskander

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#40210: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:41:38 PM

It would crack every time they walk?

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RokukeShiba Since: Nov, 2014
#40211: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:45:13 PM

[up][up] my other idea is that someone created gems to use as soldiers and workers. since they don't need to eat,sleep, or breathe. Making them the perfect warriors and workers. Then the people who made them died out and the gems pretty much go out on their own and made the home world into a gem home world.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#40212: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:47:02 PM

Aliens aren't people. Gems might've just been a way to preserve the legacy, before taking their own initiative.

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#40213: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:51:04 PM

I mean, we don't know how long Homeworld has been making Gems to have almost depleted Homeworld's resources. The main Kindergarten made what appears to be hundreds of Gems, with the only noticeable side-effects being a few small canyons and a complete lack of life in the immediate area. Maybe Injectors speed up the process excessively, damaging the surrounding ecosystem, while the natural method was slow enough to be safe for the environment. Also, this is a species the routinely lives thousands of years, even if Gem creation took 700 years of incubation, that's still peanuts compared to their life-span, if it even has a natural end.

edited 13th Aug '16 6:53:22 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

hcobb Since: Jan, 2001
#40214: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:56:52 PM

Corrupted gems have many different forms, but all of them work as forms. It's only distorted gems like Amethyst's too soon hatching that have asymmetries that interfere with their natural processes like locomotion.

Given that the corrupted forms are their natural forms, gems did not parallel evolve to human form. Humans imposed these forms on them.

So it's bestiality instead of sex-bots. evil grin

Guy01 Since: Mar, 2015
#40215: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:56:57 PM

'Steven Universe' artist shuts down Twitter account after harassment http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-lauren-zuke-harassment/

surprisedsad

Ok, who let Light Yagami in here?
xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#40216: Aug 13th 2016 at 6:58:07 PM

[up]Old news. Read the past several pages. We're talking about something else now.

Guy01 Since: Mar, 2015
#40217: Aug 13th 2016 at 7:00:48 PM

[up]My bad. I just found out about it myself. tongue

Ok, who let Light Yagami in here?
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#40218: Aug 13th 2016 at 7:00:53 PM

These things happen as well, staying out of the loop would be a positive in this case.

edited 13th Aug '16 7:02:18 PM by randomness4

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#40219: Aug 13th 2016 at 7:03:22 PM

People have compared the Gems to Transformers before, and the Transformers have two different origin stories. In one origin story they were made by these guys. In the other, well, at the beginning of time there were two primordial beings; Primus, the god of creation and light, and Unicron, the god of destruction and darkness. Primus created the transformers race, then transformed in to a planet for them to live on. Unicron has the ability to transform into a planet that eats other planets. However I think I'd be happier not having an explanation for how Gems were initially created. If the show does have a Grand Finale but then gets picked up for a Post-Script Season, maybe then would be a good time to explore how the first Gems were created.

edited 13th Aug '16 7:04:13 PM by WillKeaton

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#40220: Aug 13th 2016 at 7:04:23 PM

Also, this is a species the routinely lives thousands of years, even if Gem creation took 700 years of incubation, that's still peanuts compared to their life-span, if it even has a natural end.
The problem isn't how long they live naturally though. If any other species figures out how to shatter them, they can't get back out of the brink of extinction once that starts happening. Any other species of similar intelligence that reproduces faster could easily outnumber them, and annihilate them. Heck, before they developed technology, animals could have.

And considering how slow they develop, there'd no doubt be an alien race somewhere out there with tech beyond what they have because they developed sooner.

edited 13th Aug '16 7:10:21 PM by xanderiskander

RokukeShiba Since: Nov, 2014
#40221: Aug 13th 2016 at 7:06:28 PM

Makes me wonder, are there any Gem seeds left on earth colony? I assume with everyone leaving earth in a hurry it could be left behind in a box somewhere in one of the kindergartens. Would make sense unless Blue diamond or pink sent any unused gem seed back to home world as the rebellion kept going.

I wonder what the CG would do if they found one..

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#40222: Aug 13th 2016 at 7:19:33 PM

[up] Likely have a ethical debate akin to an abortion debate on whether or not they should incubate the seed(s) (The Kindergartens DID take resources from the Earth to use, and I think that was Homewords primary use for Earth that Got Rose to lead a rebellion to begin with).

edited 13th Aug '16 7:24:28 PM by MorningStar1337

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#40223: Aug 13th 2016 at 8:12:44 PM

If by "seeds" you mean "stuff in the Injector", those aren't so much fetuses as sperm/ovum in a freezer.

edited 13th Aug '16 8:17:23 PM by thatother1dude

RokukeShiba Since: Nov, 2014
#40224: Aug 13th 2016 at 8:16:16 PM

i call them seeds since its like a plant, put it in the ground and it draws resources to it as it grows XP

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#40225: Aug 13th 2016 at 8:17:15 PM

[up][up]Well that might take the Abortion allegory out of the running (keyword: might)

edited 13th Aug '16 8:17:28 PM by MorningStar1337


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