Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-675805-20141028114030/@comment-1409915-20141031030201

Mattwo wrote: Honestly I'm going to have to say that Naljians DO live on a higher dimension, there's simply no way a relatively "nearby" universe could have such advanced technology, on the basis that all of the ones we've seen thus far never have tech more advanced than the omnitrix as something that could be viewed as "normal". The universes where that sort of thing is "normal" are probably a biiiiit more far detached. Also, it's never even specified whether or not they live in one universe or above multiple universes simultaneously.

Furthermore, the 26 dimensions it was referring to probably have nothing to do with Dimension 12 and Dimension 23...

What we have here is a case of different writers using the same terminology in different ways... Holy crap! There is a Dimension 12! I totally forgot about those guys!

Well in any event I'd say that it goes without saying that there are different writers using the same terms, however in spite of this there is still contradiction.

I get where you are coming from with the higher planes issue concerning the Nalijians but at the same time it's not completely out of the way to say they do come from a different universe.

For another universe to have a more advanced form of technology to make something like the Omnitrix look normal it's not impossible, or relatively out of the way. In fact the universe Paradox mentions in Ben 10'000 Returns could well be referring to this theoretical universe. (Of course that was still during the entire period that was UAF when this was put into practice and therefore wouldn't count but for the sake of an example)

Or Maybe the universes are stacked in a way that resembles a plane system that requires ascension and descension. Honestly if we admit to the Nalijians living on a different it just pulls us back to square one which is what's the difference, how many differences are there and so on.

I believe that in UAF, as seen by the possible contradiction between the Naljians and Dimension 12, they weren't so much concerned with matching it up at first and so we get this confusion. This taken into account, also considering that technically Naljians and Dimension 12 were still two different series, even though they were of the same era, it becomes possible to infer that your statement about Dimensions 12 and 23 not being of the 26 it (the Naljian) referred to as correct.

At the same time you could look at it from the perspective that if Dimensions did refer to universes the Naljian was basically saying that there are only 26 universes that truly matter at which point the argument would become that among these may include, the Naljian's own, the present Ben universe, Ben 23 and Dimension 12 if you consider them worth paying attention to.

I know this all sounds really confusing, bear with me and ask if anything I just said doesn't make sense, and I'll try to explain it better.