?

Within the meeting chamber of the council of twelve, a few gems were already in attendance for the next meeting; at the center of the circular room was Pink Morganite, in the midst of waiting on her timer within her data slate that sat off to the side on the table of hers to go off and prompt her to slam her gavel and signal for the council to begin their next meeting. Those that were in attendance so far were Yellow Morganite, Blue Demantoid and White Sapphire, the next meeting was supposed to involve the entire cabal of the council to discuss the events so far of the prior century within the Great Diamond Authority.

From the entrance of the council chambers, gems began to walk in by either one or two at a time, Morganite eyed the incoming gems with a scrutinizing gaze; The first two gems that walked in, were Forsterite and Nosean from White Diamond's court. Already more than acquainted enough with White Diamond's overly enthused Gem inspector Forsterite, Pink Morganite placed her attention on the Nosean gem as the two gems walked up a set of stairs to sit next to White Sapphire.

White Nosean is one of the very first, if not the actual first, commander gem of White Diamond's moderately sized invasion force for conquering planets to pave the way for the Diamond Empire to colonize whatever planet she conquers; Her appearance was that of a clean white military uniform with black boots that reached her knees, and her hair was styled to resemble her Diamond in a flattering way.

The Next two gems that entered through the entrance, were Blue Hessonite and Pyrope; Supposedly, Blue Pyrope instigated the Pyrope gem on planet F78 to commit the 'treasonous' act of riling up rebel gems. Blue Hessonite on the other hand was the one involved with sending her private forces out to shatter the Hessonite in the Northern Sector for her failure to withdraw in time before Citrine could capture her.

Coming in soon afterwards was Yellow Beryl, she seemed rather content at the moment from Pink Morganite's perspective; Apparently she went to do a little analyzing on her youngest custom made 'sister' gem, Commander Citrine. Morganite supposed whatever Citrine did, made Beryl quite satisfied to watch her sister gem. Pink Morganite drew her attention to Yellow Morganite who was already here, and began conversing with her elder sister gem Beryl once she made her way up to sit next to the Morganite.

Custom made gems were arduous to make, thus it was why they took longer to incubate compared to their batch made gems; With Citrine, that made three custom made gems within Yellow Diamond's court, making Beryl the eldest, yellow Morganite the second oldest, and Citrine the youngest. Pink Morganite actually wondered what the meeting between the three would be like, cause as far she knew, Commander Citrine had yet to meet her older sister gems that Yellow Diamond had custom made herself.

Pink Morganite brought her attention back to the entrance to see Yellow Aquamarine, an Era 1 aquamarine; With Yellow instead of Blue motif colors, Yellow Aquamarines were few in number within Yellow Diamond's court, whereas in Blue Diamond's court they were more numerous. Something about it having to do with Yellow Diamond not bothering to create more during era 2 if Pink Morganite remembered right.

The next two and Final gems to enter were Pink Sapphire and Pink Zircon, the two approached her table wordlessly and stood next to her while she sat; Zircon, like the rest of her gem line, was created to handle the law aspect of gem society. Morganite held up her data slate to check the time, and lifted her gavel to begin the next meeting by hammering it down on her desk. "With this, we can now begin the centennial discussion." she announced as she held up her dataslate…she really needed to upgrade it to the new holopads that were out now…

Looking up from her dataslate after looking through it, and for the council to quiet down from idle chatter, her eyes scanned the room of all its occupants. "It's been a rather busy century, so let's try and narrow down the more pressing matters." she warned the council with a simple gratifying smile.

From there, the council broke into murmurs amongst each other as they discussed with each other on what to speak about first; Pink Morganite glanced across the elevated row of seats that each gem sat at, and noticed Nosean sat just a little off to the side on the bottom row while Forsterite and White Sapphire sat in the same row above her; The Grand Commander of White Diamond's gem soldiers had her legs crossed, while her arms were crossed. She seemed to have a pensive look on her face as if she was going through her thoughts, before her gaze snapped towards Pink Morganite.

While it seemed the rest of the Council were still busy trying to figure out what to discuss by narrowing down several subjects of discussion, Nosean seemed ready to speak her mind; Pink Morganite allowed a few minutes to pass, before tapping a button on her desk for a holoscreen to pop up above her table, and made a hum of thought when the very gem's name was up on the list, "The first to speak up and discuss matters is Nosean." Morganite cited off from the screen she read off from.

Nosean

Being one of pedigree and status, as well as such a fine cut of gem that presented itself on her forehead, Nosean was a gem that went to great lengths to instill order and perfection within her Diamond's court; Out of every other commander gem, she is considered the oldest and most decorated. Nosean took extra care to hold herself up to the standards of her Diamond, and shine as brilliantly as she could, her faith in the Great Diamond Authority was absolute, she would do everything in her power to please her diamond.

As of late however, within the recent several centuries, Nosean had seen rather hasty changes that she was skeptical of, and the many changes within the main military branch of the Diamond Empire, which was governed by Yellow Diamond, had seen rather…shall she say…improvements…yes, she'll go with improvements to the say the least. Though, that didn't mean she liked it, in fact, she was entirely against the reformations and restructured military doctrine, but the results bore efficiency and success…and Nosean was not one to turn her nose up at efficiency and Success, she just wished it didn't involve off color gems and unsegregated cuts of facets and cabochons.

It was why she was now on the fence so to speak, with the ongoing matter of what to do with Yellow Diamond's Citrine Commander; On one side, she wanted the gem shattered for her blasphemous ideas and military doctrine, but on the other hand she was proud to see such an efficient commander. That was why she was within the faction of undecided, while others were for and against Citrine. There was even a discussion going on to increase the numbers within the council, and invite Citrine amongst the numbers, but realistically, she was a thousand years too young to have a seat on the council.

The rest of them were around and over three thousand years old, and the agreed minimum age for any council member was two thousand years; thus, for now, there would still be an open discussion on whether they should increase their council member numbers to compensate for the size of the Diamond Empire.

At present, Nosean cleared her throat, before speaking clearly with a refined tone, she stood up straight with her hands clasped behind her back as she began to discuss matters, "Show of arms hands now please." she began to ask with a pointed look at everyone, "So that we can get this out of the way, how many of you were going to speak on the matter of Yellow Diamond's Citrine Commander?" she questioned the rest of the council.

An overwhelming majority of the council raised their hands with either disgruntled looks, amused expression, to seething, and a mix of other expressions within the council of twelve. "I see." Nosean remarked, before reaching into her breast pocket, and pulled out a small device to remotely control large holo screens to pop into existence, and showed a full diagram of Citrine, as well as written reports that scrolled upwards to the side of her image.

"Facet 74ny4 cut v0n." Nosean began to summarize, "This will be the first time we've actually gone into a full discussion about this cut of gem, so let's not leave anything out. Yes?" She inquired amongst every gem with a pointed look, and earned nods of agreement from everyone. "Excellent." she smiled primly.

"Now." Nosean began to say as she pressed the screen on her device in her hand, prompting the holo screens to show four different planets, before one was zoomed in on that was owned by Blue Diamond that seemed fine from orbit; the image of the planet then zoomed in to show a more scarred and scorched surface with various gem temples destroyed. "Planet 42u23." she presented to the audience within the council chamber.

It was then that one of the council members from Blue Diamond's court made their discontent of Citrine's methods in quelling the planet's be known, as Blue Pyrope slammed her fist down on the table in front of her, "She ruined my Diamond's treasured planet! Look at the damage she wrought upon that planet." she raged and grinded her teeth in anger.

Nosean gave the Blue Pyrope a curious expression with a raised eyebrow, "That is where you are wrong." she corrected the council member to the right of her, and thumbed her device to bring up detailed reports of the eleven year campaign on the planet to take out the rebels on it, "Detailed accounts show that the the majority of the infrastructure was damaged by the rebel gems, with Citrine's forces doing the least amount of damage." Nosean told the gem with an analytical gaze.

"Well…she…gah!" Blue Pyrope threw her hands up in anger and sat back with a seething expression, "We still had to abscond Almandine Garnet from that planet, and all our projects along with her." Pyrope sneered in dissatisfaction.

"Yes yes." Yellow Beryl said as she crossed her legs and looked at Blue Pyrope with an eye roll, "And we're still looking for a new planet to host our little projects on, things like this take time though, so don't take your anger out on Citrine almost finding our hidden cache of projects."

While Blue Pyrope grumbled, Nosean took her chance to continue where she left off, by bringing up the next planet to zoom in on. "Next up, the derelict planet of 1v02y." The image of what looked to be were the remains of a smashed gem colony that was previously hollowed out to become its purest form as a gem world, something that would have happened to the Earth if the colonization finished on that world.

With a rather pensive look on her face, Nosean wasn't sure how to react to how Citrine resolved the matter on the derelict colony world. "Unfortunately, or perhaps, fortunately, Citrine was able to resolve the matter rather hastily by knocking the planet's moon out of its orbit, and dropped it into the planet, thus finishing her campaign against the rebels in a rather timely manner."

From her stance against the Citrine commander, Blue Hessonite couldn't help but bring up the matter that said gem practically destroyed the colony world of White Diamond. "Shouldn't you be the one that should be angry at how that commander defaced your Diamond's colony world." she probed Nosean with a sneer on her face.

White Sapphire took her chance to speak on the matter with an eerie smile, "You forget, it was derelict, my Diamond has no need for such an eyesore of a planet." she pointed out, prompting the Blue Hessonite to look at the Sapphire in surprise.

"Quite." Forsterite spoke up next with a wide brimming smile, "It was slated to be disassembled over the course of several decades." she informed the Blue gem with an excited grin, and maddening look in her eyes, "In this way, my Diamond's court was able to swoop in and collect the destroyed pieces of the colony, and ship it off to the nearby planet without a hassle from decades of work!"

Mutterings broke out amongst the council, before Nosean cleared her throat once more to get the attention of the audience, "Enough, now, onto the latter half of the century." she said as she brought up more images of various campaigns that were operated by Commander Citrine.

Elsewhere

Citrine's Hand War ship

Above the world that is Albus 01, the armada of ships and giant hand ship under Citrine's command is prepping up for the trip to the next destination; inside the giant hand war ship, and inside the general briggs for housing bubbled and non-bubbled gems in containment rooms, the area was alive with activity as several dozens upon dozens of bubbled gems are being shipped into the briggs. With the recent 'purge' that had happened on White Diamond's colony world, dozens of Amethysts gems were in charge of hauling in armfulls of bubbled gems, and storing them away into holding cells for later release on one of Yellow Diamond's reserve fortress colony worlds.

A cacophony of idle talk filled the briggs as Quartz soldiers worked around the clock, in the meanwhile, Citrine herself along with a few Peridots and an Olivine were working on categorizing the incoming batch of gems that have been 'confiscated' from the Colony world. Standing beside the entrance along with her assistants, Tanya held in her hand a holo pad and a stylus in the other hand, using both to jot down the gems that were being hauled in.

As more Amethyst gems are hauling in more bubbled gems, Tanya jotted down into her holopad, "That makes…fifteen hundred gems so far." she let out an exhausted breath.

A Peridot looks over at her, "Fifteen hundred and ten, ma'am, to be more precise." she corrected her Commander.

Tanya shot the peridot a look, "I was rounding down, but yes, you're right." She nodded and placed her holopad under her arm, and gave the Peridots and Olivine her attention, "Continue while I tend to other business matters." Tanya commanded the gems she had involved in tallying and categorizing the captured gems.

"Ma'am!" The Gems saluted their Citrine Commander, allowing Tanya to give them a nod in return and exit the area.

As Tanya left the briggs, she passed by more incoming groups of quartz soldiers under her command with more bubbled gems carried in their arms, " We'll be filled to capacity if this keeps up." she thought to herself as her eyes trailed to the numerous bubbled gem carried off into the briggs for storage.

While her Pearl was still keeping Spinel company at her behest, and soothing the gem's grief over her shattered Diamond, it gave Tanya the ample opportunity to retreat to a more…secretive project of hers, right next to investigating the shattering of Pink diamond. As Tanya continued to walk through the busy hallways of her ship, she eventually reached a less busy section of her ship before finally reaching the door that opened only to her geometrics, ie, her gem.

The room was pitch black inside, and as Tany walked in, allowing the door to shut behind her, the room lit up in a low yellowish orange tint of light, "Now, where to begin." Tanya spoke to herself as she cupped her chin, as looked at the various walls and objects organized around the room; there was even a few holo boards that could be moved around along the floor for ease of relocation, on each wall was a holoscreen that showed various data on what Tanya had been working on over the decades and centuries, and one such wall involved information Tanya was able to gather on data around Pink Diamond and the case of her shattering.

Another wall involved a new case that Tanya had been busying herself with over the past century, involving odd happenstances that seemed to involve high ranking gems; Leaving the case of Rose Quartz and Pink Diamond aside for some other day, Tanya wanted to focus on the more relevant case of increasing amount of rebellions, and the aristocrat gems that have been involved in all the matters.

Tanya walked towards the center of the room, and sat at the desk that was situated there, and pulled out an item from her gem and slotted it into the console of her desk, and began typing into the holo-keyboard below the monitor that was propped up on the desk. " There's also that incident involving that red Hessonite…said something about them or something…is there some sort of shadow government that I'm not aware of after a thousand years?" Tanya thought to herself as she typed into her holo-keyboard to store more evidence to review for later.

"Then again…" Tanya said out loud to herself as she looked up in thought, "Why would I be aware of any shadow government…wouldn't they have done something sooner than now of all times!" she pondered in worry, "How would such a thing even exist with the Diamonds already at the highest level of authority!?" she asked herself.

" No." Tanya chided herself in her thoughts with a grimace, "that defeats the purpose of a shadow government, but that still poses a question of whether all these rebellions are all just false flags just to weed out actual rebellious gems…no…even that wouldn't make sense…unless…" Tanya stopped typing into her keyboard, and stood up from her desk, to look at the nearby wall with several monitors of information about the various worlds she's been put in charge of quelling rebellions on.

Tanya shook her head to herself, and before she could go any further into investigating the matter, she checked the time on her personal holopad from out of her gem, "I'll have to continue this later." she muttered to herself, before exiting the room after she snapped her fingers, prompting the room lights to shut off, and the doors to shut once she exited the room.