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Name: Silver Diamond
Age: 189,652

Weapon:
Halberd:
Silver Diamonds personal weapon is a Halberd, the head of which is rather ornate. The Axe head is slightly longer than normal consisting of a curved blade that stretches down along the shaft slightly, while the hook on the opposite end consists of four protrusions each stretching out in its own direction, up and down the shat or to either side of the axe blade. Finally the pike has three short serrated barbs meant to inflict additional tearing and rending when pulled out of an enemy. As a diamond Silver is exceptionally skilled at manipulating her weapon and reshaping it’s various aspects at will, allowing her to alter the size and length of various parts of the halberd, shrinking the axe and hooks, shortening the shaft, and lengthening the glave to turn it into a sword, or altering the axe head to be larger and more fitting a war axe, and so forth, allowing her personal weapon to be incredibly versatile. Silver rarely draws her personal weapon, instead favoring material weapons.

Rapier:
Silver’s personal sword was forged by her personal smith, and is made of a tungsten carbide alloy, the blade has a distinctive pattern similar to that of Damascus steel, the edge having been sharpened down to a nanno scale allowing it to easily, effortlessly and cleanly cut through anything, the blade was meant to allow Silver Diamond to pierce any guard, armor, or shield in combat through skill and finesse rather than brute force. The hand guard around the hilt of the rapier is extraordinarily ornate consisting of winding, twisting swept metal designs rather than a simple cup shield.

Pistol:
Silvers side arm is as ornate as her sword, having been crafted by a team of laborites and peridots, the pistol strongly resembles old ornate flintlock designs from earth, the body being made of a polished black metal with elegant flowery silver designs along the grip and barrel, the pistol itself is powered by Silver Diamond and must be charged between firings, each shot however is rather potent, and while it’s rate of fire is abysmal by modern standards of gem armaments, the raw fire power it is capable of delivering with each shot is still difficult to match. While any gem is capable of using the pistol, it’s power is relative to the gem using it, meaning that particularly weak gems will either fire only weak shots, or require exorbitantly long periods of time to charge the weapon to deliver even a single powerful shot

Special Ability’s:
Incorporeal Form:
Silver Diamond is capable of transforming her body into an ethereal mist/ smoke form.
While in this incorporeal form Silver appears as a light grey semi-transparent smoke or mist, is capable of flight, can move through cracks and vents, and is impervious to physical attacks. However there are a number of drawbacks to being in this form, first while incorporeal Silver is incapable of physically affecting the world and while she is immune to physical harm electricity is far more harmful to her and it is entirely possible to freeze her. Silver’s flight speed is extremely limited as well, she can fly only about as fast as she could normally walk, and while she is resistant to winds blowing her around a strong enough gust can send her on her way. While Silver is capable of occupying small spaces her volume remains consistent, the smaller the space she chooses to occupy the thicker and more visible her smoke form becomes whereas the larger the space she tries to fill the thinner and less visible she becomes, additionally, she cannot return to her physical form if the place she is in is too small to accommodate her body. Finally, while in her incorporeal form, Silver is unable to use her time related powers

Temporal Manipulation:
Silver Diamonds signature Diamond ability is her ability to manipulate time, stopping, slowing, accelerating or otherwise manipulating its flow to her own ends, however she is incapable of reversing the flow of time or traveling back to the past.

Time Stop:
Silver Diamond is able to stop time entirely for everyone but herself. When time is frozen she is able to move about freely, and interact with the world normally with a few restrictions. First, while mechanical objects will function normally, electronic devices, or devices dependent upon chemical reactions, will be frozen and will not respond to her commands. Second, while Silver Diamond can move objects about freely, however, they will maintain their momentum and will resume moving when time resumes with whatever changes to their direction, orientation, or heading that silver has made. Finaly, while time is stopped silver is unable to physically damage anything, meaning she cannot freeze time and kill her enemy’s (although she could move them around or plant object in front of them that would harm or kill them when time resumes) .When silver resumes time, if she is not approximately where she was when she froze time, it appears to others as if she teleported.

Time Slow:
In many ways, Time Slow is a weaker version of silvers ability to freeze time. When silver slows the flow of time, to outside observes it appears as though she has gained super speed, however in truth, time is simply moving faster for her at a ratio of 1 to 100. However as Silver is merely slowing time, she does not gain any of the traditional abilities or benefits of super speed, she is unable to defy physics and run up walls, or create cyclones by running in circles she can however easily move from falling object to falling object, or across fragile surfaces that would break under foot. The main difference is that from silvers perspective, time remains constant, a jump that would take her two seconds to complete, from her frame of reference still takes two seconds to complete, although to an observer it takes far less time. With time slowed, silver is able to physically attack her enemy’s as she would normally, and to her foe’s it is seems very much like fighting someone with super speed. Another, far less frequently seen use of this ability is for silver to slow some one else personal time down to a near standstill as a method of preserving those with dire injuries until such time as they can be properly treated, or as a way of containing considerable threates, without her constant attention however, subjects of this power will slowly return to normal time.

Accelerating Time:
While silver can slow time, she can also accelerate it, often times she uses this ability to rapidly age and deteriorate something, or someone, causing metal to rust, and stone to erode to dust, this power however is of little use against gems, as they do not age, instead it can be seen as a form of torture to lock them in an accelerated time frame, unable to properly interact with the world around them, or to shorten a sentence so that a gem feels as though they were locked away for centauries when in fact Silver accelerated their time and locked them up for only a few years

Future Sight Resistance:
Because of her ability to manipulate time, Silver is difficult to predict by gems with future sight, events directly involving her often being clouded or blurry, no two attempts at seeing her future ever playing out exactly the same, this effect only gets worse the further a gem attempts to peer into futures involving Silver Diamond; as a result Silver has very little faith in oracles or their ability to predict the future as they have a poor track record of detailing her own future.

Diamond Resistances:
All diamonds possess incredible resistances and durability, being all but immune to physical damage, while possessing out right immunity to heat, radation, negative energy, and many other negative energy effects meant to debilitate, often making them seem impervious to direct harm.

Gender:
Female

Meaning:

Gem Location:
Back of her neck. Gem is a diamond cut silvery white tumbled gemstone of remarkable clarity.

Appearance:
Silver Diamond she wears a long black heavy cape with high collar, the back of the cape stretches down to her ankles, while the front consists of a buttoned cross section that covers from the bottom of her neck down to half way between her bicep and elbows on her chest. The inside of the cape is a deep royal blue and the connecting embroidery was thin line of silver. The adjoining button is a silver diamond crest crossed by a pair of swords. Underneath her cape Silver wears a long two tailed officer’s jacket the tails ending at her knees. The outside and majority covers of her jacket were white, the inside folded halves of the jacket as well as the cuffs were black, while the embroidery and buttons were silver, on either shoulder were a pair of embroidered silver epaulets with shoulder hanging tassels while the inside neck of her officers jacket sports a puffed blueish-silver neckerchief.

Silver also wares a pair of white dress gloves in addition to her jacket and matching white pants which are in turn contrasted by knee high black jackboots. Finally, she wears a silver mask cast with a stern but neutral expression over her face.

Personality:
Silver Diamond is a brilliant but ruthless tactician and strategist; she favors the use of guerrilla tactics, hit and run operations, or blitzkriegs, and avoids long sieges or entrenched positions wherever possible. As silver prefers to defeat her enemy’s in detail, she tends to avoid particularly large scale battles, preferring smaller targeted operations that chip away at one aspect of her enemy’s military or position at a time, slowly removing their options one by one and forcing them to respond in exactly the way she desires them to. Silver is unafraid of using unconventional tactics, and in fact favors them, as they keep her opponents off balance and make her forces more difficult to predict. Silver is very detail oriented and will hold off on any operation for as long as possible to ensure she knows as much as possible about the area of operation, the enemies her gems will be fighting, she carefully weights all options as she evaluates the information, and creates a network of plans, fall back plans, back-ups, and counters to as many possible scenarios as can be predicted, ensuring that, even in the worst event, her forces will have managed to inflict some form of damage to the enemy, even if that is simply drawing them away for a latter attack on now stretched supply lines, or forcing them to exhaust more forces then they intended to deal with her gems.

Silver Diamond is very focused, some might say obsessed, with her honor and pride, something that can often be exploited under the right circumstances, as her honor often means forgoing the use of many of her powers, or providing some form of handicap for her opponent, because silver is so focused on maintaining her honor and pride these self-imposed handicaps can often be quite severe and restrictive, however her ego often prevents her from accepting most duels as the difference between a diamond and any other gem is in her mind, far too great to be matched, and so in most cases, will use a proxy of roughly the same skill and power as whomever is challenging her, in these cases however, she tends not to agree to any special terms or conditions for the duel. Silver’s honor also mandates that she uphold any spoken agreement, promise, or oath, for this reason she is very cautious with her wording and slow to offer her word. Silver’s pride is also rather sensitive and when damaged can send her flying into rage where she often loses focus on the larger picture in favor of taking whatever actions she feels are necessary to restore her wounded ego. Silver’s pride is also very exploitable, and can be used to draw her into duels with conditions for the loser/ victor or to extract a promise from her.

Within her court, Silver is viewed as a reasonable diamond that adheres to a strict code of conduct, and merits out punishment in accordance to that code and the severity of the crime, often being as lenient as she can within her system of rule, in the other courts however, Silver Diamond is viewed as an extremely strict, harsh diamond, unwilling or unable to bend or make allowances, delivering swift and brutal punishment as she rules her court with an iron fist. This is further compounded by the fact that her court is a military arm of the empire, and she is constantly moving from one battlefield to the next, providing as much personal oversight as possible, causing others to view her as a violent, war mongering blood thirsty monster only barley kept in check by the other diamonds, while Silver’s own gems view this level of involvement as their diamond working to ensure their success and that as many of them return from battle alive as is possible.

Within her court, it is known that silver has great difficulty maintaining a straight face, and is easy to read as her face is very expressive of her emotions and thoughts, and that their diamond is rather sensitive to this issue as well as having a somewhat lower opinion of her own beauty when compared to other diamonds, or gems who are prized for their looks, as a result she wears her silver mask, cut into the stern but neutral expression as she has never been able to make her face into a mask like her fellow diamonds. Outside the court however, rumors abound about the mask, most centering on it acting as a sort of muzzle to keep the semi-rabid silver diamond in check, or that the mask is in fact her face, or it is a cast of her ‘gentlest’ expression. While Silver has difficulty controlling her face, her voice, posture, and body language are all strictly controlled and regulated to send only the message she wants and project only the image of a powerful diamond.

Finally, silver is dedicated to her purpose and her code, she exists to eliminate threats to the empire, there are no lengths she would not go to in order to fulfill this mandate, and there is no one she would not kill if they were a threat to the survival of gem kind, however, Silver also has a rather broad perspective in regards to the empire and the species, often times leading her to be in conflict with the other diamonds, Silver is not opposed to rebellions or revolutions that seek to change gem society, nor is she opposed to the idea of elevating some lesser species as ways of strengthening the empire, as she believes the species and empire must be capable of growing and adapting if it is to truly thrive. This has made her rather tolerant of rebels and defects (provided they can still preform their function adequately) as well as under-developed alien species. However this stance has also made her very leery of outlier gem types who’s mental state, powers, or origin may lead them to be a threat to all gem kind (silver was vehemently opposed to the fusion experiments for this reason)

Dance Style:
Tourdion

Theme Song:
Lady of Worlds by Miracle of Sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=43FnCO…

Wake The White Wolf by Miracle of Sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMSN_…

The Way Of The Warrior by Hammerfall (Theme Song of Silver Diamonds Armada)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcogFH…

History:
Traditionally, a diamond is born from the gemlings of a diamond and her consort under the rare instance where those gemlings merge into a new diamond, Silver Diamond however was born in a kinder garden on home world from a designer gem seed, as the creation of a diamond naturally requires more resources then the creation of other gems, Silver Diamond was the last gem to be created from her kinder garden, and her height relative to other diamonds is a result of her origins. Silver was created in the younger days of the empire, when home world was still rich in resources, and the empire young and new to the stars. In those ancient days, the empire was not the same unstoppable force that it is now, they faced many threats from more advanced civilizations, and procured inhabited worlds only with great difficulty. In an attempt to turn the tide, the Diamond Authority created Silver Diamond to be a military leader, filling her gem-seed with innate knowledge and skill in combat, and warfare, providing her the same desires as other gems to fulfill her purpose.

By and large, Silver’s creation was perfect, the current diamonds spent the first five hundred years of silvers life educating and training her to be the ideal military leader they wanted before unleashing her upon the stars to lay waste to their enemy’s. As a result of silvers upbringing, she longs for family, and is insecure in her ability to raise gemlings, considering herself unfit; having never experienced what family would have really been like.

Upon completion of her training, silver was given her own court, and a fleet of ships to command, two gems in particular standing out, a White Azezulite from the same kinder garden as Silver who was to act as her mentor and continue her training, and a Black Pearl who was to be Silver’s personal pearl. Their roles quickly altered, with White Azezulite becoming something more akin to a sister for Silver, while her Black Pearl, Noir, became more like a guardian, and the closest thing she would have to a parent.

The first world Silver took for the Empire was an oceanic super earth perfect covered in archipelagos with the largest landmasses being island like small continents, a planet ideal for the creation of Pearls. The world was, of course inhabited by a reasonably advanced sea fairing race that had been able to turn back previous gem invasions, Because gems did not have great oceans, their own naval technology lagged behind greatly, and silver was at a significant disadvantage, however, through her skill, she was able to use her infantry to capture the native’s naval ships, submarines, and bases, then adapt their technology into develop a proper gem navy, from here, Silver turned the war around, eventually wiping out the species and capturing her first world. This planet has since become a colony world under Silver Diamond’s control, and is the closest thing she has to a planetary capital, as the true seat of power remains in her fleet.

Silver went on to lead her growing armada to victory after victory, most of her captured worlds being given to the other diamonds, while she kept a few, which would become dedicated kindergartens or production worlds to support her growing armada. Silver’s forces were used extensively to deal with other advanced space fairing civilizations and worlds with highly developed populations, propelling the empire into its current state local supremacy in its own corner of the galaxy.

All of this of course changed with the birth of Red Diamond, who, upon reaching maturity was given command of most of the empire’s military, which previously fell under Silver Diamonds control, reducing her power from something that rivalled the greater diamonds, to her being one of the lesser diamonds. Silver was, by and large, fine with the transition, although she disliked the young Red Diamonds tactics, finding them to ridged, and to predictable, and her court to be strict and harsh. Silver was able to, mostly, look past these differences. All of this changed however after a failed romance between the two, which resulted in a constant rivalry between the two diamonds and their courts, both looking upon the other in great disdain.

Red Diamonds Sister, Purple Diamond however has been a constant friend and alley of silver diamond, the two having fallen in love long ago and produced a pair of gemling children, a silver lapis lazuli, and her twin sister Larimar. While lapis lives in purples court, Larimar lives in silvers court, the two sisters occasionally switch places so that they can spend time with both parents. Purple and Silver’s romance eventually ended and the two drifted apart, remaining close friends and allies, and caring for each other deeply, but the love had faded away with time.

At the height of Silver Diamonds carrier, now only being sent to deal with the greatest threats to the empire, her fellow diamonds took the still young and new crown jewel of silvers court away from her, a Cintamani with the ability to manipulate and reorder matter. In an effort to keep Cintamani from being imprisoned because of her powers, Silver rushed through the invasion of her latest world, personally taking to the front lines and butchering the locals in great numbers, then leaving Cintamani behind to deal with the stragglers as Silver returned to home world, still covered in the freshly spilled blood of her enemies to argue that she needed Cintamani, because unlike her fellow diamonds to whom Cinta would be little more than a trophy to silver, she was a valued member of the court, and a powerful weapon to be used against the enemies of the empire. The other diamonds ignored silvers arguments, and their courts were in an uproar over the display of silver walking about covered in alien blood acting as if it was little more than water. Ever since that display, Silver has been viewed as a brutal savage by the gems of the other courts, and shown far less respect, ever since that day, it event was also a galvanizing moment for the gems under silvers command as it marked one of the few times silver took to the field personally, and she did so to keep one of them in her court. The moment was catalyzing for silver, ever since Cintamani was taken from her and bubbled by the other diamonds, silver has been extremely territorial and protective over the gems that are hers. As a result of that event, Silver earned the nickname “The Blood Diamond” a title she greatly dislikes as it is often used as an insult, Red Diamond however is jealous of the title, viewing it as just another thing silver has over her.

When the rebellion of Rose Quartz began, Silver took her massive armada into deep space, refusing to get involved in what she called an internal matter to be dealt with by the other diamonds. Silver gave her own gems leave to choose their own path, join the rebels, fight on the side of home world, or remain with the armada until the rebellion ended, or home world had need of them again. Silver herself took on the identity of a Smokey Quartz, left her armada and joined a rebel faction that had taken root on one of her own worlds. And so, Silver remained, playing the rebel soldier until events brought her back to home world, and required that she resume her identity as Silver Diamond.

Description
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Name: Silver Diamond
Age: 189,652

Weapon:
Halberd:
Silver Diamonds personal weapon is a Halberd, the head of which is rather ornate. The Axe head is slightly longer than normal consisting of a curved blade that stretches down along the shaft slightly, while the hook on the opposite end consists of four protrusions each stretching out in its own direction, up and down the shat or to either side of the axe blade. Finally the pike has three short serrated barbs meant to inflict additional tearing and rending when pulled out of an enemy. As a diamond Silver is exceptionally skilled at manipulating her weapon and reshaping it’s various aspects at will, allowing her to alter the size and length of various parts of the halberd, shrinking the axe and hooks, shortening the shaft, and lengthening the glave to turn it into a sword, or altering the axe head to be larger and more fitting a war axe, and so forth, allowing her personal weapon to be incredibly versatile. Silver rarely draws her personal weapon, instead favoring material weapons.

Rapier:
Silver’s personal sword was forged by her personal smith, and is made of a tungsten carbide alloy, the blade has a distinctive pattern similar to that of Damascus steel, the edge having been sharpened down to a nanno scale allowing it to easily, effortlessly and cleanly cut through anything, the blade was meant to allow Silver Diamond to pierce any guard, armor, or shield in combat through skill and finesse rather than brute force. The hand guard around the hilt of the rapier is extraordinarily ornate consisting of winding, twisting swept metal designs rather than a simple cup shield.

Pistol:
Silvers side arm is as ornate as her sword, having been crafted by a team of laborites and peridots, the pistol strongly resembles old ornate flintlock designs from earth, the body being made of a polished black metal with elegant flowery silver designs along the grip and barrel, the pistol itself is powered by Silver Diamond and must be charged between firings, each shot however is rather potent, and while it’s rate of fire is abysmal by modern standards of gem armaments, the raw fire power it is capable of delivering with each shot is still difficult to match. While any gem is capable of using the pistol, it’s power is relative to the gem using it, meaning that particularly weak gems will either fire only weak shots, or require exorbitantly long periods of time to charge the weapon to deliver even a single powerful shot

Special Ability’s:
Incorporeal Form:
Silver Diamond is capable of transforming her body into an ethereal mist/ smoke form.
While in this incorporeal form Silver appears as a light grey semi-transparent smoke or mist, is capable of flight, can move through cracks and vents, and is impervious to physical attacks. However there are a number of drawbacks to being in this form, first while incorporeal Silver is incapable of physically affecting the world and while she is immune to physical harm electricity is far more harmful to her and it is entirely possible to freeze her. Silver’s flight speed is extremely limited as well, she can fly only about as fast as she could normally walk, and while she is resistant to winds blowing her around a strong enough gust can send her on her way. While Silver is capable of occupying small spaces her volume remains consistent, the smaller the space she chooses to occupy the thicker and more visible her smoke form becomes whereas the larger the space she tries to fill the thinner and less visible she becomes, additionally, she cannot return to her physical form if the place she is in is too small to accommodate her body. Finally, while in her incorporeal form, Silver is unable to use her time related powers

Temporal Manipulation:
Silver Diamonds signature Diamond ability is her ability to manipulate time, stopping, slowing, accelerating or otherwise manipulating its flow to her own ends, however she is incapable of reversing the flow of time or traveling back to the past.

Time Stop:
Silver Diamond is able to stop time entirely for everyone but herself. When time is frozen she is able to move about freely, and interact with the world normally with a few restrictions. First, while mechanical objects will function normally, electronic devices, or devices dependent upon chemical reactions, will be frozen and will not respond to her commands. Second, while Silver Diamond can move objects about freely, however, they will maintain their momentum and will resume moving when time resumes with whatever changes to their direction, orientation, or heading that silver has made. Finaly, while time is stopped silver is unable to physically damage anything, meaning she cannot freeze time and kill her enemy’s (although she could move them around or plant object in front of them that would harm or kill them when time resumes) .When silver resumes time, if she is not approximately where she was when she froze time, it appears to others as if she teleported.

Time Slow:
In many ways, Time Slow is a weaker version of silvers ability to freeze time. When silver slows the flow of time, to outside observes it appears as though she has gained super speed, however in truth, time is simply moving faster for her at a ratio of 1 to 100. However as Silver is merely slowing time, she does not gain any of the traditional abilities or benefits of super speed, she is unable to defy physics and run up walls, or create cyclones by running in circles she can however easily move from falling object to falling object, or across fragile surfaces that would break under foot. The main difference is that from silvers perspective, time remains constant, a jump that would take her two seconds to complete, from her frame of reference still takes two seconds to complete, although to an observer it takes far less time. With time slowed, silver is able to physically attack her enemy’s as she would normally, and to her foe’s it is seems very much like fighting someone with super speed. Another, far less frequently seen use of this ability is for silver to slow some one else personal time down to a near standstill as a method of preserving those with dire injuries until such time as they can be properly treated, or as a way of containing considerable threates, without her constant attention however, subjects of this power will slowly return to normal time.

Accelerating Time:
While silver can slow time, she can also accelerate it, often times she uses this ability to rapidly age and deteriorate something, or someone, causing metal to rust, and stone to erode to dust, this power however is of little use against gems, as they do not age, instead it can be seen as a form of torture to lock them in an accelerated time frame, unable to properly interact with the world around them, or to shorten a sentence so that a gem feels as though they were locked away for centauries when in fact Silver accelerated their time and locked them up for only a few years

Future Sight Resistance:
Because of her ability to manipulate time, Silver is difficult to predict by gems with future sight, events directly involving her often being clouded or blurry, no two attempts at seeing her future ever playing out exactly the same, this effect only gets worse the further a gem attempts to peer into futures involving Silver Diamond; as a result Silver has very little faith in oracles or their ability to predict the future as they have a poor track record of detailing her own future.

Diamond Resistances:
All diamonds possess incredible resistances and durability, being all but immune to physical damage, while possessing out right immunity to heat, radation, negative energy, and many other negative energy effects meant to debilitate, often making them seem impervious to direct harm.

Gender:
Female

Meaning:

Gem Location:
Back of her neck. Gem is a diamond cut silvery white tumbled gemstone of remarkable clarity.

Appearance:
Silver Diamond she wears a long black heavy cape with high collar, the back of the cape stretches down to her ankles, while the front consists of a buttoned cross section that covers from the bottom of her neck down to half way between her bicep and elbows on her chest. The inside of the cape is a deep royal blue and the connecting embroidery was thin line of silver. The adjoining button is a silver diamond crest crossed by a pair of swords. Underneath her cape Silver wears a long two tailed officer’s jacket the tails ending at her knees. The outside and majority covers of her jacket were white, the inside folded halves of the jacket as well as the cuffs were black, while the embroidery and buttons were silver, on either shoulder were a pair of embroidered silver epaulets with shoulder hanging tassels while the inside neck of her officers jacket sports a puffed blueish-silver neckerchief.

Silver also wares a pair of white dress gloves in addition to her jacket and matching white pants which are in turn contrasted by knee high black jackboots. Finally, she wears a silver mask cast with a stern but neutral expression over her face.

Personality:
Silver Diamond is a brilliant but ruthless tactician and strategist; she favors the use of guerrilla tactics, hit and run operations, or blitzkriegs, and avoids long sieges or entrenched positions wherever possible. As silver prefers to defeat her enemy’s in detail, she tends to avoid particularly large scale battles, preferring smaller targeted operations that chip away at one aspect of her enemy’s military or position at a time, slowly removing their options one by one and forcing them to respond in exactly the way she desires them to. Silver is unafraid of using unconventional tactics, and in fact favors them, as they keep her opponents off balance and make her forces more difficult to predict. Silver is very detail oriented and will hold off on any operation for as long as possible to ensure she knows as much as possible about the area of operation, the enemies her gems will be fighting, she carefully weights all options as she evaluates the information, and creates a network of plans, fall back plans, back-ups, and counters to as many possible scenarios as can be predicted, ensuring that, even in the worst event, her forces will have managed to inflict some form of damage to the enemy, even if that is simply drawing them away for a latter attack on now stretched supply lines, or forcing them to exhaust more forces then they intended to deal with her gems.

Silver Diamond is very focused, some might say obsessed, with her honor and pride, something that can often be exploited under the right circumstances, as her honor often means forgoing the use of many of her powers, or providing some form of handicap for her opponent, because silver is so focused on maintaining her honor and pride these self-imposed handicaps can often be quite severe and restrictive, however her ego often prevents her from accepting most duels as the difference between a diamond and any other gem is in her mind, far too great to be matched, and so in most cases, will use a proxy of roughly the same skill and power as whomever is challenging her, in these cases however, she tends not to agree to any special terms or conditions for the duel. Silver’s honor also mandates that she uphold any spoken agreement, promise, or oath, for this reason she is very cautious with her wording and slow to offer her word. Silver’s pride is also rather sensitive and when damaged can send her flying into rage where she often loses focus on the larger picture in favor of taking whatever actions she feels are necessary to restore her wounded ego. Silver’s pride is also very exploitable, and can be used to draw her into duels with conditions for the loser/ victor or to extract a promise from her.

Within her court, Silver is viewed as a reasonable diamond that adheres to a strict code of conduct, and merits out punishment in accordance to that code and the severity of the crime, often being as lenient as she can within her system of rule, in the other courts however, Silver Diamond is viewed as an extremely strict, harsh diamond, unwilling or unable to bend or make allowances, delivering swift and brutal punishment as she rules her court with an iron fist. This is further compounded by the fact that her court is a military arm of the empire, and she is constantly moving from one battlefield to the next, providing as much personal oversight as possible, causing others to view her as a violent, war mongering blood thirsty monster only barley kept in check by the other diamonds, while Silver’s own gems view this level of involvement as their diamond working to ensure their success and that as many of them return from battle alive as is possible.

Within her court, it is known that silver has great difficulty maintaining a straight face, and is easy to read as her face is very expressive of her emotions and thoughts, and that their diamond is rather sensitive to this issue as well as having a somewhat lower opinion of her own beauty when compared to other diamonds, or gems who are prized for their looks, as a result she wears her silver mask, cut into the stern but neutral expression as she has never been able to make her face into a mask like her fellow diamonds. Outside the court however, rumors abound about the mask, most centering on it acting as a sort of muzzle to keep the semi-rabid silver diamond in check, or that the mask is in fact her face, or it is a cast of her ‘gentlest’ expression. While Silver has difficulty controlling her face, her voice, posture, and body language are all strictly controlled and regulated to send only the message she wants and project only the image of a powerful diamond.

Finally, silver is dedicated to her purpose and her code, she exists to eliminate threats to the empire, there are no lengths she would not go to in order to fulfill this mandate, and there is no one she would not kill if they were a threat to the survival of gem kind, however, Silver also has a rather broad perspective in regards to the empire and the species, often times leading her to be in conflict with the other diamonds, Silver is not opposed to rebellions or revolutions that seek to change gem society, nor is she opposed to the idea of elevating some lesser species as ways of strengthening the empire, as she believes the species and empire must be capable of growing and adapting if it is to truly thrive. This has made her rather tolerant of rebels and defects (provided they can still preform their function adequately) as well as under-developed alien species. However this stance has also made her very leery of outlier gem types who’s mental state, powers, or origin may lead them to be a threat to all gem kind (silver was vehemently opposed to the fusion experiments for this reason)

Dance Style:
Tourdion

Theme Song:
Lady of Worlds by Miracle of Sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=43FnCO…

Wake The White Wolf by Miracle of Sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMSN_…

The Way Of The Warrior by Hammerfall (Theme Song of Silver Diamonds Armada)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcogFH…

History:
Traditionally, a diamond is born from the gemlings of a diamond and her consort under the rare instance where those gemlings merge into a new diamond, Silver Diamond however was born in a kinder garden on home world from a designer gem seed, as the creation of a diamond naturally requires more resources then the creation of other gems, Silver Diamond was the last gem to be created from her kinder garden, and her height relative to other diamonds is a result of her origins. Silver was created in the younger days of the empire, when home world was still rich in resources, and the empire young and new to the stars. In those ancient days, the empire was not the same unstoppable force that it is now, they faced many threats from more advanced civilizations, and procured inhabited worlds only with great difficulty. In an attempt to turn the tide, the Diamond Authority created Silver Diamond to be a military leader, filling her gem-seed with innate knowledge and skill in combat, and warfare, providing her the same desires as other gems to fulfill her purpose.

By and large, Silver’s creation was perfect, the current diamonds spent the first five hundred years of silvers life educating and training her to be the ideal military leader they wanted before unleashing her upon the stars to lay waste to their enemy’s. As a result of silvers upbringing, she longs for family, and is insecure in her ability to raise gemlings, considering herself unfit; having never experienced what family would have really been like.

Upon completion of her training, silver was given her own court, and a fleet of ships to command, two gems in particular standing out, a White Azezulite from the same kinder garden as Silver who was to act as her mentor and continue her training, and a Black Pearl who was to be Silver’s personal pearl. Their roles quickly altered, with White Azezulite becoming something more akin to a sister for Silver, while her Black Pearl, Noir, became more like a guardian, and the closest thing she would have to a parent.

The first world Silver took for the Empire was an oceanic super earth perfect covered in archipelagos with the largest landmasses being island like small continents, a planet ideal for the creation of Pearls. The world was, of course inhabited by a reasonably advanced sea fairing race that had been able to turn back previous gem invasions, Because gems did not have great oceans, their own naval technology lagged behind greatly, and silver was at a significant disadvantage, however, through her skill, she was able to use her infantry to capture the native’s naval ships, submarines, and bases, then adapt their technology into develop a proper gem navy, from here, Silver turned the war around, eventually wiping out the species and capturing her first world. This planet has since become a colony world under Silver Diamond’s control, and is the closest thing she has to a planetary capital, as the true seat of power remains in her fleet.

Silver went on to lead her growing armada to victory after victory, most of her captured worlds being given to the other diamonds, while she kept a few, which would become dedicated kindergartens or production worlds to support her growing armada. Silver’s forces were used extensively to deal with other advanced space fairing civilizations and worlds with highly developed populations, propelling the empire into its current state local supremacy in its own corner of the galaxy.

All of this of course changed with the birth of Red Diamond, who, upon reaching maturity was given command of most of the empire’s military, which previously fell under Silver Diamonds control, reducing her power from something that rivalled the greater diamonds, to her being one of the lesser diamonds. Silver was, by and large, fine with the transition, although she disliked the young Red Diamonds tactics, finding them to ridged, and to predictable, and her court to be strict and harsh. Silver was able to, mostly, look past these differences. All of this changed however after a failed romance between the two, which resulted in a constant rivalry between the two diamonds and their courts, both looking upon the other in great disdain.

Red Diamonds Sister, Purple Diamond however has been a constant friend and alley of silver diamond, the two having fallen in love long ago and produced a pair of gemling children, a silver lapis lazuli, and her twin sister Larimar. While lapis lives in purples court, Larimar lives in silvers court, the two sisters occasionally switch places so that they can spend time with both parents. Purple and Silver’s romance eventually ended and the two drifted apart, remaining close friends and allies, and caring for each other deeply, but the love had faded away with time.

At the height of Silver Diamonds carrier, now only being sent to deal with the greatest threats to the empire, her fellow diamonds took the still young and new crown jewel of silvers court away from her, a Cintamani with the ability to manipulate and reorder matter. In an effort to keep Cintamani from being imprisoned because of her powers, Silver rushed through the invasion of her latest world, personally taking to the front lines and butchering the locals in great numbers, then leaving Cintamani behind to deal with the stragglers as Silver returned to home world, still covered in the freshly spilled blood of her enemies to argue that she needed Cintamani, because unlike her fellow diamonds to whom Cinta would be little more than a trophy to silver, she was a valued member of the court, and a powerful weapon to be used against the enemies of the empire. The other diamonds ignored silvers arguments, and their courts were in an uproar over the display of silver walking about covered in alien blood acting as if it was little more than water. Ever since that display, Silver has been viewed as a brutal savage by the gems of the other courts, and shown far less respect, ever since that day, it event was also a galvanizing moment for the gems under silvers command as it marked one of the few times silver took to the field personally, and she did so to keep one of them in her court. The moment was catalyzing for silver, ever since Cintamani was taken from her and bubbled by the other diamonds, silver has been extremely territorial and protective over the gems that are hers. As a result of that event, Silver earned the nickname “The Blood Diamond” a title she greatly dislikes as it is often used as an insult, Red Diamond however is jealous of the title, viewing it as just another thing silver has over her.

When the rebellion of Rose Quartz began, Silver took her massive armada into deep space, refusing to get involved in what she called an internal matter to be dealt with by the other diamonds. Silver gave her own gems leave to choose their own path, join the rebels, fight on the side of home world, or remain with the armada until the rebellion ended, or home world had need of them again. Silver herself took on the identity of a Smokey Quartz, left her armada and joined a rebel faction that had taken root on one of her own worlds. And so, Silver remained, playing the rebel soldier until events brought her back to home world, and required that she resume her identity as Silver Diamond.