Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25660412-20141111162843/@comment-241978-20141117184625

Primus opens a number of plotholes.
 * 1) We were originally told the Omnitrix stored DNA inside itself, which was why Ben couldn't risk losing it to the Highbreed. In the OS, that's why Zs'skayr said he was trapped inside the watch. Primus retcons this to the watch being a receiver for the server on Primus.
 * 2) Azmuth was living as a hermit on Xenon at the same time he supposedly maintained Primus. This would make sense if Primus and Xenon were the same planet, but they clearly aren't. Azmuth left Xenon and never returned for some nebulous reason.

Batboyexe wrote: maybe at first the Omnitrix had it's own DNA, but that data was destroyed when Ben used it to cure the highbred due to a glitch, after which it needed to connect with Primus (which acted as a backup system). when the new Omntrix was created, it fixed the bug, thus meaning the Omnitrix could store data again, thus rendering Primus Obsolete....best excuse for how to fix that continuity error I can think of. This does make some sense. Perhaps Primus is a prototype Omnitrix that isn't miniaturized, serving a purpose as a lab to work on other omnitrixes (e.g. extracting Zs'skayr's mind from the Omnitrix without physical access). After the Prototype was glitched by sending out a galactic pulse, it had to upload the database to Primus and rely on the copy until repairs could be administered. With the highbreed no longer a threat, Primus was no longer at risk if it was used as a database despite being far more vulnerable than the easily transported watch. Also, Primus is either Xenon or a neighboring planet/moon.

That still doesn't explain why the Arachnichimp sample conveniently degraded at the same time the Arachnichimp homeworld was infested with Xenocytes. For it not to come off as a contrived coincidence, the infestation and discovery of the degredation would've had to have been separated by several weeks at the least.