1: it’s safe to assume these attacks haven’t started recently, which means these rocks are older than red beryl, and therefore the outfit everyone currently wears may be way older than it seems
2: “we created synthetic gems […] and after droping them we did not see any results, so we took them back”, i mean i don’t really have anything to add, but their experiments probably caused some very heavy changes in gem society. Just sending fake gem shards changed the way everyone fights + changed their mindset, so, i feel like the current situation would be very different if that stuff didn’t happen.
3 : “at times, we returned gems like now, but after that we did not observe any actions and captured them again”. i feel like it explains a lot about….. the way sensei behaved after phos’ return. his shock when they returned, because they’re back, of course, but also because the lunarians haven’t used this strategy for a very, very long time. the way he didn’t want to hear what phos had to say, because the ones who came back before probably told him the same things over and over, etc. recently, most of phos’ actions seemed like some sort of act; they staged their abduction, came back on earth as if it wasn’t their own decision, and got the other gems to come with them on the moon while pretending they weren’t really interested in it. if you think about it from sensei’s point of view, it seems like phos didn’t personally chose to be involved with this plan, and at this point they could be a functional version of these synthetic/half synthetic gems, or simply extremely brainwashed after what they went through. i feel like that’s the origin of sensei’s “the one formerly known as phosphophyllite”. he might be a bot, but his view on the situation remains subjective, and to him something probably happened to phos on the moon
