Minutemen

The Minutemen are a human paramilitary-terrorist organization that opposes human/gem coexistence and is dedicated to purging Earth of gem-kind.

The Minutemen funded their operations mostly by exacting tribute from towns under their "protection" and selling looted gem artifacts on the black market.

Hierarchy and Rank
The minutemen are divided into over a hundred semi-autonomous regional units called Regiments. Each Regiment has it's own headquarters and commander but is still, at least in theory, answerable to the overall authority of the Minutemen Central Command. Each Regiment is responsible for recruiting and training it's own soldiers.

Weapons and Technology
The level of technology utilized by the Minutemen is wildly inconsistent.
 * Energy Cannons:
 * Gem De-stabilizer: these are an inferior version of the de-stabilizer weapons used by Homeworld in that they lose their charge quicker and don't knock Gems out as long. Peridot refers to these weapons as "cheap knockoffs".
 * Rods
 * Fields
 * Enhancement armor/bionics: higher ranked members of the Minutemen use these to match the superhuman strength/speed of Gems

Weapons that can Shatter Gems

 * Breaking Points: melee weapons
 * Diamond Chain-Blade: a chainsaw sword that has diamonds (the non-sentient kind) fixed to the edges allowing it to cut gemstones.
 * Anti-Matter bullets: a single one of these bullets hitting a gemstone directly will destroy that gem forever, fortunately anti-matter is expensive to produce so these bullets are rare.