>>79680245The 'twist' is simply "There's no such thing as a good war".
>Middle of the night, Greg wakes up to Rose sobbing at the memories >>79680280>There's something very unsettling about Rose.She lost her homeworld, too. Part of her would be hurting, forever.
>>79682439But what if they are not? Just how many gems are there? And if they can only reproduce parasitically, by consuming the life force of organic-life-bearing planets, they must have encountered opposition. I don't think the Gems are as powerful as some posters seem to think.
The Gems are stimulated to think parochially, to religiously hold their Diamonds are the nec plus ultra of reasoning and civilization. Even Peridot, who was fanatically devoted to them, came off that within a month of exposure.
It's inconceivable that only ever happened on Earth. Gems are free moral agents. Gem culture, on the other hand, is rigid, hierarchical and oppressive. Inherently unstable, in other words.
