AN: This story will be solely the effect that gems will have on the Mass Effect universe. In this, Pink Diamond followed through with Earth, creating a full gem colony out of it. There was a rebellion on Earth of an actual Rose Quartz and a renegade Pearl, but Sapphire was guarded by a Ruby who was not as impulsive, and thus it was stopped. Humans kept in the zoo were eventually shipped to another garden world that also happened to have a mass relay that connected to the Arcturus relay. Human history will be the same as in Mass Effect, just occurring on another planet from 5,000BCE and onwards. I own nothing and all that, just the plot of the story I write. This is my first fanfic and was written while in the clutches of insomnia. Leave reviews and all that. I hope whoever reads it enjoys, if anyone ever does.

Homeworld, 16,000 Years Ago

White Diamond, the first of a new species of sentient gemstones, becomes self-aware. At this time, she stands at roughly three meters in height; her body a simple, humanoid figure with no definitive features except her everlasting radiance of light. Aimlessly moving about the large, strange planet, she stumbles upon a settlement of intelligent organic lifeforms. The organics she encounters are unforgiving to the strange figure who has stumbled upon her encampment, and instantly attack. Their weapons have little to no effect on her hard light projection, and she attempts to communicate with them. They respond with even greater fervor in attacking her. She retreats, seeking refuge from their attack. White begins to experiment with the world around her, learning of her powers as she peruses the nature of the world around her.

Homeworld, 15,000 Years Ago

White Diamond, while on her journey of self discovery, encounters the organics who so cruelly attacked her those many years ago. They have advanced in their technology, and at the sight of the three meter monster told in their mythos, attack her once again. To their shock, the monster explodes in a cloud of rushing air and light. They retreat back to their city, reporting the sighting of the monster once again. Days later, in a glowing corona of white light that could be seen all around for hundreds of meters, White reforms, choosing to return as a ten meter tall humanoid with an elegant robe. She feels shock at the return to the physical world, realizing that she had effectively died and returned to life. Despite not requiring them herself, she knew of the organics' need of sustenance and drink and their penchant to cease functioning when deprived of them. She now possesses the answer to one of her greatest questions, her own mortality. With this newfound knowledge, she purposefully seeks out the pesky organics who gave her trouble and once again is poofed by their weapons. This occurs again and again, until she realizes that being of a larger size increases her chances of survival. With each reformation, she stretches her form more and more. She eventually reaches a limit of twenty-five meters tall.

White has began to use her attackers as unknowing tools in her quest of self betterment. She also discovered a valuable piece of information, that her gem located on her forehead was her weakest spot. She learned this on one of her experimental raids against the city. She received a direct hit to her gem, and felt her entire body shudder in intense pain. She knows, though, through some form of instinct, that there is nothing in all of nature that can destroy her gem, and is contented by this knowledge. Through this testing, she has gained much valuable knowledge about herself. The seed of superiority has been planted in her mind as well; she knows her place in this world, she is no prey animal to these organics, she is the perfect predator, she is their doom.

Homeworld, 13,000 Years Ago

After a trying two thousand years, White Diamond has single-handedly eliminated the civilization of organics living on the planet she calls home. She now realizes, that without her adversaries, she is painfully alone. Without them, there is nothing to do except reflect upon her existence. This continues for centuries, until she makes a breakthrough with a small rock.

White Diamond, shape-shifted to much more maneuverable height of three meters, was focusing on a small rough stone. The stone, which she somehow knew to be a selenite crystal, was perfect. It was a small, rectangular crystal that was completely transparent. What White wanted was for this crystal to become as she was, a living, moving being. She did not know how this could come about, however, and began to become frustrated. In her frustration, she did not notice a strange power emanating from her body. A nearby plant and small patch of grass began to wither and the crystal began to glow with a bright, white light. Suddenly, the crystal pulled out of White's hand and floated into the air, a body composed of light forming around it, before it solidified into a small white body, roughly one meter tall. The being fell to the ground, before regarding White with a curious look. Tears begin to form in White's eyes, as she realizes her isolation was finally over.

Homeworld, 11,000 Years Ago

White Diamond began producing more and more gems, deciding to fill this world with beings such as her. She began to scour the world with her new Selenite, looking for perfect crystals to bring to life. Within fifty years, she had hundreds, if not thousands, of Selenite gems following her around as loyal subjects; their crystals were not extremely rare. These Selenites did not seem to possess the same amount of powers as she, and she began to feel they were inferior to her. The Selenites were also not as nearly as intelligent as she, only barely managing to complete the simple tasks she began to assign them correctly. She also discovered the unsavory fact that they were not as invincible as she. She had poofed many for failing to complete tasks, but for the first time, she accidentally went too far; she discovered that her Selenites could be shattered. The crystal crumbled under her strong swat, and did not reform within the ten or so minutes it took for the Selenites to regain their form (they were quite simple gems after all). Instead, to White's abject horror, a flurry of limbs and body chunks began to form on the ground in front of her. In her horror, she crushed the gem shards to a fine powder and scattered it, hoping to be rid of the horrid pieces. She decided that she needed to test the true strength of her subjects and see if they were worth creating. To her embarrassment, she discovered that another common gem, quartz, would not only be much stronger than her Selenites, but also much larger and more intelligent. The drawback was that her Selenites required only a small amount of organic life energy to create, while a single quartz required nearly five times as much. She would have to just create the more useful subjects anyway, Homeworld (as she began to call it) had enough resources to make millions, if not billions of gems.

10,000 Years Ago

White Diamond, gem matriarch, wants to have others like her. She creates two others like her, Yellow and Blue Diamond. She delegates the production of military and the continuation of research to Yellow, while tasking Blue with the oversight of the new political systems formed from having so many subjects; Blue is also tasked with the production of a culture, commissioning art, music, dance and such. A fourth diamond also emerges. To White's abject horror, this diamond is not what she anticipated. Instead of a tall, beautiful Red Diamond emerging, a short, fluffy Pink Diamond emerges. Childish and irresponsible, Pink Diamond is kept under the strict watch of Yellow and Blue, being kept away from the general populace who would be shocked to learn of the off-color nature of Pink. White Diamond, much more detached and world weary than the others, decides to retreat from the public light and take up a ruling position instead, becoming the ruling figure of Homeworld and leaving the work to her Diamond accomplices. This begins the long rule of the Great Diamond Authority. Research teams all across Homeworld spring up, and technological advancements are being made every day. With White not having to micromanage everything, Homeworld's efficiency increases across all sectors. New machines are created, Injectors, to automatically create new gems from the life rich planet of Homeworld. Space flight is discovered, and a nearby planet, also bearing life is colonized. New types of gems are prototyped and placed into active duty, Nephrite pilots, Bismuth builders, Peridot kindergarten experts. The Peridots discover that the new planet does not have the same mineral makeup as Homeworld, and only a few types of gems are able to be produced. Pearls are first created here. Pearls are made en masse and sent back to Homeworld as beautiful, hard-working servants. White Diamond receives the most perfect Pearl ever produced.

10,000 - 5,750 Years Ago

In the thousands of years since the Great Diamond Authority's beginning, massive technological advances have been made. They have achieved faster-than light space travel, colonized many worlds, and created a system that allows gems to be transported from location to location almost instantly. White, Yellow, and Blue have all claimed many world for themselves, producing millions of gems to fill their courts. White herself returns to Homeworld, weary from the constant work of colonizing. She would not leave again for thousands of years. Pink Diamond demands her own colony, wanting to be treated like her other Diamonds. She is given one, the planet Earth, and encounters the local intelligent life, humans. Pink's new colony is found to be a haven for the production of new quartz soldiers. Amethysts and Rose Quartzes are produced by the millions. One Rose Quartz manages to bring a Pearl to her side and trains her in the way of the sword. Unfortunately, on an attack on Blue Diamond while she was visiting Pink, the Rose Quartz and her Pearl were captured, poofed, and shattered for their insurrection. This provides an example to all of the quartzes on Earth, that Pink and her Diamond allies were not to be trifled with. Pink's colonization effort is completed, and she now holds an army of her own strong enough to defend Earth from any outside force before her allies arrive. Humans, the once dominant species on Earth, are moved to the Zoo, where they are held for hundreds of years. Eventually, they are decided unworthy of upkeep and are dumped on the nearest garden world unfit for gem colonization. This world was enough for the humans and also was coincidentally near a Mass Relay that would connect to the Arcturus Relay.

5,750 Years Ago - Present

Earth is the base of operations for Pink Diamond, who has been delegated the new task of scouting for colonies with her small, but strong fleet. She discovers multiple worlds all fit for gem colonization in the Milky Way, ranging from only tens of light-years from Earth to across the galaxy in the Terminus. Not one of these worlds contains a Mass Relay, and the only one in Gem-Controlled Space is orbiting Sol. Pink Diamond, while in between scouting expeditions, notices Pluto's moon Charon, and its irregular mass for being as small as it is. Pink's ship triggers the Relay's activation, and it powers up. Her arm ship is sent to Arcturus, and she notices that the travel was faster than the Gem Race's own form of FTL. She immediately contacts her allies, Yellow and Blue, and tells them of the strange artifact. As Arcturus has no worlds with organic life that could be used to create Gems, the star is considered a pass-through system to get to others. Pink's new scouting assignment is to discover garden worlds with Mass Relays and create suitable Gem colonies that could be used as defense platforms in case of invasion. The Diamonds activate more and more Mass Relays, until they discover what is known as Relay 314. The activation of this Relay would lead to their first contact with organic life-forms that were of an (almost) equal level of development as they. The Turians stumble upon what looks like a giant pink arm pointing its fingers at Relay 314.

AN: Leave a review if it's good. Or bad. Tell me if I should or should not continue. I wrote this after the release of LFHTH.