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Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#53251: Feb 10th 2018 at 11:37:00 PM

I have meme idea. Steven asks Garnet a Broken Base question and she's unable to answer and breaks into Ruby and Sapphire. Has this ever done before?

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#53252: Feb 11th 2018 at 12:42:00 AM

Probably...

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edited 11th Feb '18 12:45:30 AM by randomness4

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#53253: Feb 11th 2018 at 8:55:21 AM

> why would Lapis expect the same?

I don't think she'd expect it if she mentioned she was from Earth,I imagine they'd have to be accommodating if she said she was stopping by on her way to Homeworld

I'd be interested in seeing a Malachite fusion with one of the zoo jaspers or Skinny Jasper ,though that's unlikely

As for occasional visits by one of the Diamonds,i'd figure they don't happen often enough that Lapis would be at risk discovered,at most they could mention that a Lapis visited them but she's not a fugitive so they're not really looking for her

edited 11th Feb '18 8:55:40 AM by Ultimatum

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#53254: Feb 11th 2018 at 12:25:24 PM

I don't believe for a millisecond that Lapis would stop at a Gem-controlled area for any reason.

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#53255: Feb 11th 2018 at 1:02:11 PM

When she flew off at the end of "Ocean Gem," I mean, at less than light speed it would take thousands of years to get anywhere. People often say that she used a warp pad at the moon base, because it's the only thing that makes sense. I can't think of any other way she could get anywhere at the speeds she did.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#53256: Feb 11th 2018 at 1:21:28 PM

She may have used a Galaxy Warp to save some time, but there's no way there's one on the moon—Homeworld would have used such a thing several times by this point. And I can't see why they would go to the trouble of making another in this solar system when Earth had one, and that was already the most convenient location.

It's pretty obvious Lapis can go FTL, even if she's not as fast as the gravity-driven Era 2 ships.

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#53257: Feb 11th 2018 at 1:23:23 PM

I like the idea there's a spaceship on the moon somewhere.

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#53258: Feb 11th 2018 at 1:49:19 PM

That makes me wonder if human astronomers ever noticed the moonbase.

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#53262: Feb 11th 2018 at 3:00:42 PM

Nevermind, it works, I missed the link and mistook that extra line break between the first two paragraphs as an image not loading.

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#53263: Feb 11th 2018 at 4:52:22 PM

> I like the idea there's a spaceship on the moon somewhere.

I suppose it's always possible she used the Diamond communicator at the Moonbase to request a ship,though Lapis flying a ship is an entertaining image,along with Lapis flying back to Homeworld at lightspeed through sheer determination!

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#53264: Feb 11th 2018 at 7:04:05 PM

[up] The main computer is smashed and the communicater blew up.

I could see Lapis heading to the moonbase to check if the computer had any knowledge of nearby planets she could hide out on, not knowing that it's busted.

And the idea of Lapis flying a ship at the speeds she normally goes is pretty funny.

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#53265: Feb 12th 2018 at 3:10:37 AM

They were intact when Lapis left Earth,it was later smashed up when they were with Peridot

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#53266: Feb 12th 2018 at 7:45:31 AM

Are you talking about Lapis leaving in "Mirror Gem" or Lapis leaving in "Raising The Barn"?

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#53267: Feb 12th 2018 at 7:49:47 AM

I suspect Lapis is just going to hide out on Mars or an asteroid. Some place where she can be alone and probably unnoticed, and still some place where she could be easily called back in by the writers if they feel it's time to use her again. Also, Mars or the asteroid belt are locations that Lapis knows aren't controlled by Homeworld and aren't on their radar (since Homeworld presumably would have started terraforming them if they were usable).

Of course... it wouldn't totally surprise me if, in Steven Universe, there did use to be a planet between Mars and Jupiter, and it turns out that the asteroid belt is the remnants of a planet that was completely stripped of resources by gems. It would even potentially give greater urgency to Rose Quartz for starting the rebellion - she may have already seen one planet in this solar system destroyed by Homeworld, and she didn't want to see that happen to Earth as well.

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#53268: Feb 12th 2018 at 8:02:41 AM

Mirror Gem,since there was long period where she was absent until she contacted them from Homeworld itself

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edited 12th Feb '18 8:02:53 AM by Ultimatum

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#53269: Feb 12th 2018 at 8:10:19 AM

[up][up]Why are you putting tags over your own theories? It's not like it's an actual spoiler.

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#53270: Feb 14th 2018 at 6:44:23 AM

@53265 I've been squawked at about lackadaisical use of discussing even possible spoilers too many times for my comfort.

Anyhow, while this is more of a background question than anything else, but what forms the bulk of Homeworld's military forces? Rubies seem like the obvious choice, but it seems odd that the base foot soldier would be used for the various missions we've seen Rubies on (bodyguarding, small strike team). I suppose that Citrines (based on what Emerald said in "Lars of the Stars" about the numbers that the Off Colors were able to deal with) may make sense.

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#53271: Feb 14th 2018 at 7:05:56 AM

The bulk of their armed forces will be Amethysts and Jaspers given that's what came out of the Prime and Beta Kindergartens,the Citrines are probably Yellow Diamond's equivalent to Elite Mooks

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#53272: Feb 14th 2018 at 11:57:46 AM

Rubies seem like the obvious choice, but it seems odd that the base foot soldier would be used for the various missions we've seen Rubies on (bodyguarding, small strike team).
Why is the most common type of soldier doing any of those unusual? Sapphire was important enough to have rubies for bodyguards, but if she was even more important she'd be guarded by quartzes like the diamonds are (we saw two in "The Answer", and the defense in "The Trial" mentioned Pink Diamond had agates). The Ruby Squad sent to Earth are small, but not compared to Jasper+Peridot or Aquamarine+Topaz.

I suppose that Citrines (based on what Emerald said in "Lars of the Stars" about the numbers that the Off Colors were able to deal with) may make sense.
Emerald called them "elite citrines", though you could parse that as "citrines that are also elite" or "citrines, and thus elite". The Off Colors were clearly able to "deal with" them because by sneaking past them, so their strength didn't really matter.

The bulk of their armed forces will be Amethysts and Jaspers given that's what came out of the Prime and Beta Kindergartens
Why should we assume most Kindergartens make the same kind of quartz as those two?

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#53273: Feb 14th 2018 at 12:49:48 PM

Because they really want good soldiers for their armies and those two meet all the criteria they're looking for so they mass produce those kind of gems

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#53274: Feb 14th 2018 at 12:55:16 PM

@53267 Maybe it's just me, but I thought Amethysts were exclusively produced on Earth (similar to Rose Quartzes). Though in general, I did get the impression that quartzes in general were one type of special forces.

@53268 Mostly, I doubt Rubies are foot soldiers because the skillsets to which they were applied are a bit different from the ones you'd want for the jobs they were assigned. Of course, there is admittedly the argument that they may just have been assigned poorly.

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#53275: Feb 14th 2018 at 1:50:48 PM

I think it's safe to say the Rose Quartzes were one of the few gems exclusively produced on Earth,though where their Kindergarten is located is anyone's guess

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