Legend
There is a Pearl who is made of light.
All Pearls are made of light, of course. All Gems are. Aside from their gemstones, they are just light made solid. But there is a Pearl who is truly made of light, flickering and brilliant, as insubstantial as air. She spreads through the cosmos, carried by holograms and whispers.
She is air, she is light, she is stories.
The stories are forbidden, but still they spread.
Earth, they say, is the source of the stories. The home of the Pearl, of the Renegade. That is where the first hologram came from. No one's quite certain who produced it, but speculation runs rampant— the hologram is so detailed, so close, from inside an actual Sky Arena, the pearl who produced it must have been very high ranking, maybe even belonging to a Diamond herself. It shows a Pearl, and Quartz, working together. Fighting. The Pearl is slender and slight, as all are. Her outfit is so plain that she should be ugly— but no, she is beautiful. Beautiful and terrible. She carries two swords, and she is so sharp, jagged and fierce. She fells warriors three times, as easily as if she is dancing.
A fabrication, some say. A lie, say others. Some desperate dream. It could never be real.
But then come in other holograms, from other pearls, all stationed on the Earth colony. The Pearl, again and again. Ambushes, daring escapes, fighting battles four-to-one, or else commanding entire troops—
Hologram is passed by pearl to pearl. Embellishments are made. By the time it reaches the farthest corners of the Diamond Authority's Empire, the Pearl in the holograms is sometimes fifty feet tall, or has four arms, or is fighting with six weapons at once— sometimes she is so muscular she hardly looks a Pearl at all, and some say she has been fusing with other Gems, but that just can't be right—
But something is the same, in each and every hologram. The Pearl's eyes. The way they burn.
There is a Pearl who is made of light, and she shines like a star.