>>111847962Part of the pre-Cluster era 'let's try and get some use out of all those fucking shards and low-quality gems we gotta manufacture' experiments would be using captured humans as artificial shells for weaker gems and shards.
Stuff a reprogrammed gem in the chest cavity, make it recognize the body as its own, the Gem's potential is unleashed to a certain degree as instead of wasting a lot of strength on a light body, all of it can go to breaking motherfuckers.
Those hybrids, probably all failures excluding the project where you inject a human's bloodstream with gem dust to have it solidify and through that 'take form', would be called Bloodstones, and one final shot at creating a hybrid could be called Blood Diamond: the value of the resulting hybrid would be derived not from its actual abilities, as this 'Diamond' wouldn't be capable of, say, making gems, but instead because of the circumstances of its acquiral by the Gempire, namely, by pumping lots of resources into a synthetic gem project.
The result would probably remain inactive until Steven accidentally revives the thing during a trip to some sort of great old projects stockpile Yellow would take him on in an attempt to show why she can't disband all of her armies.
The Blood Diamond would probably be an amnesiac human, most likely a captive from the Rebellion era, so a Bronze age person; probably a soldier in a better shape, the goal being giving the actual gem a body as decent as possible without resorting to actually researching how to grow organic life manually.
