Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25413416-20140914163526/@comment-3974711-20140925125141

Well we'll need to return to the purpose of the Omnitrix, or Azmuth's intention for it. An intergalactic Noah's Ark.

Presumably this would enable to Omnitrix to make sure that the alien forms within it (and by extension its user) would survive. There are ways to do that without wholly arming the form.