>>99693960They can come back from apparent total defeat in an impressive enough manner to terrify their enemies, who have been shown to be stereotypes of every way in which females can be classed incompetent. IOW basically what they've been doing.
Steven has turned himself in, stood trial and admitted murdering a Diamond, all as a gambit to make a DEMAND of Blue and Yellow, then just bail and escape without a trace FROM HOMEWORLD when the demand was not met. He discovered a group of outcasts on Homeworld, and placed as its leader a mysterious Immortal Alien who has raised the group into a resistance cell which has trampled over Homeworld security forces with apparent impunity.
>>99694813Pearl is White Diamonds. White Diamond can exercise direct control over any Pearl. It is how she administers HER Empire. The rebellion was real, it occurred how we have been told (Rose Quartz recognized Humanity and Earth generally as something essential to protect). Pink Diamonds Earth Colony WAS White Diamonds secret plot. To create an already exceptionally ignorant and impatient/eager/exuberant Diamond and give her Earth as her first Colony, after denying her anything at all for some time prior, building her anticipation and eagerness even further. All in the goal of ensuring that the unique nature of Humanity and Earth be ignored, and ultimately lost to history.
The plan collapsed with Rose Quartzes rebellion and the first negotiated creation of the Human Zoo space station. The worst case scenario was coming to pass when Rose and PD met to negotiate an end to the War (ie. PDs negotiated surrender). White Diamond struck through Pearl, shattering Pink Diamond (who was then without any use to White Diamond at all), intending to incite the blind hatred of Yellow and Blue Diamond to ensure the destruction of Earth and Humanity. She basically succeeded, up until the pileup of cosmic coincidence surrounding Steven Universe.
