Probably after she turns 13...age-appropriate, don't want to offend your viewers.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.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.
Oooh, "gemetics"...hardy har har, bad stuff.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.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.
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.
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
It would crack every time they walk?
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Aliens aren't people. Gems might've just been a way to preserve the legacy, before taking their own initiative.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.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
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.
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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
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.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
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
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..
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

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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