Digimon Profile #29- Digimon in the Crack Team

[MarcFBR]

A new Digimon Profile has gone up on Digimon Web!

Digimon Profile #29 is a report on Digimon associated with the group known as the 'Crack Team'



The introduction from Agumon Hakase...

The Crack Team... A group that uses mechanized Digimon for nefarious gains. Their objectives and people in it are unknown, but info on the Digimon associated with them has been leaked. So allow us to re-leak the down-low on the Digimon of the Crack Team!


Crack Team Leader's Agent
Chaosdramon. It was created by improving & strengthening Mugendramon. It is also the Digimon used by the Crack Team leader as an agent.

Combat Specialists
Mugendramon & Gundramon. Digimon that stand on the front lines when large-scale battles take place and rampage. With their incredible firepower, they are capable of annihilating targets.

Ground Interceptor
MetalTyranomon. It has been strengthened and remodeled to intercept attacks from the land. It combines high durability and aggressiveness.

Anti-Air Interceptors
Megadramon and Gigadramon. Digimon with modifications that make them more powerful against airborne attackers. Gigadramon was developed at the same time as Megadramon and has a difficult personality, but its attack power is high.

Underwater Interceptor
MetalSeadramon. It intercepts attacks from underwater by using its metal body to deflect attacks and its amazing underwater movement. With the completion of MetalSeadramon, which was modified by the Crack Team, all interceptor Digimon for land, sea, and air are now in place.

Sea Control Specialist
GigaSeadramon. For the expansion of the Crack Team's power, it was built to have a cruising range that covers the vast Net Ocean, and a transport capacity that can accommodate extra-large Digimon.

Scout & Information Analyst
Aegis Dramon. Specializes in analyzing enemy information and searching for enemies. The information it analyzes is quickly sent to the Crack Team members deployed around it, & excels at strategy in battle. It is also called the brain of the Crack Team.





Agumon Hakase finishes with...
It is rumored that the data from the poison refined by a certain Digimon, the subject of the Crack Team's research, was involved in the creation of bacterial weapons and part of a plot in high profile assassinations... The Crack Team is a very scary group.... I wonder if more Digimon will be developed and modified in the future...




Prior Digimon Profiles:
Introduction & First 5 Profiles
#6- Report on the Four Holy Beasts & their Subordinates
#7- Vehicle Digimon
#8- Knight Digimon
#9- How to Read the Digimon Encyclopedia
#10- The "Four Great Dragons" Digimon
#11- Levels
#12- Armor Level & Digimentals
#13- The Digital World's Super Alloy, Chrome Digizoid
#14- Hybrid Forms & Spirits
#15- The Three Great Angels and the Kernel
#16- Digimoji and Digicode
#17- How to Draw Gammamon
#18- Food Digimon
#19- Scary Digimon that Embody the Spirit of Halloween
#20- Digimon Types/Attributes
#21- Digimon Jogress/Fusion
#22- Digimon Rivalries
#23- Speedy Digimon
#24- Digimon with Dreams
#25- Digimon of the D-Brigade
#26- The Seven Great Demon Lords
#27- X-Program & X-Antibody
#28- Digimon Classifications

 

[YongYoKyo]

Nothing really new in terms of the members themselves, but I appreciate the detailed clarification of their exact roles.

Also interesting that they referenced Bacchusmon but didn't specify its name, though it could just be that they didn't find it relevant enough to name him.

 

[Chimera-gui]

Also interesting that they referenced Bacchusmon but didn't specify its name, though it could just be that they didn't find it relevant enough to name him.

Or because he's not in the Encyclopedia since generally reports on specific Digimon species require actually having the species in it.

 

[Geode]

The Crack Team is one of the few things along with the D-Brigade I hope get explored more in the future.

I always wanted too know who the leader is, a human or a Digimon?

 

[Noni]

Although the article is "Advanced Digimon Info"/"Digipro Knowledge" they avoided being exhaustive with it, and didn't mention other related Digimon, like Andromon, Boltmon and others. Aside from Bacchusmon, indirectly referenced, as @Chimera-gui mentioned. So this leaves an opening for them to return to the topic in more depth at a later time.

I have been appreciating the profiles in their goal of gathering all these scattered encyclopedia entry information and presenting them topically like this, and in such an accessible manner that both make newcomer fans aware of Digimon lore and also reaffirm or clarify some of it. Specially because often some profile info feels very superficially relevant in adaptations or products for the franchise, aside from notable exceptions. So in that sense even if a lot of these profiles are "old information" they are still serving a very important role of actually putting all this lore at the front of view and making clear they have some intent of committing to it on some level. Which is exciting for the future of the franchise, I feel.

The Crack Team is one of the few things along with the D-Brigade I hope get explored more in the future.

I always wanted too know who the leader is, a human or a Digimon?

This is a good question. The machine translation in the official website did mention the humans having a role in the Crack Team. We know the Digital World is public knowledge in the Encyclopedia lore, but we don't quite have an idea of how this relationship works in depth yet.

 

[Yamato-san]

I never really did like Aegisdramon's attribute (two Data-type Ultimates result in a Vaccine, WTF?), but looking at it again within the Crack Team, I can actually appreciate that it rounds out the group with an otherwise missing Vaccine.

Gigadramon has higher attack power than Megadramon, huh? Seems rather funny that Cyber Sleuth made it the more defensive of the two (not that the stat-allocation in that game was always the most sensible).

 

[Muur]

Crack Team is a weird one, they get a lot of mentions in profiles and have a decent amount of popular Digimon in it but it's never been used outside the DRB so just exists as lore I think it's the only group that's happened to like it hasn't even had a random "im a member of the crack team" like half the games do when an olympos shows up and they go "im an olympos member", but then its not actually relevant they just say it because. Maybe theyll get used one day

also, one step closer to the olympos profile...

 

[Bartz]

Ah, the Crack Team, one of the groups I still hope they'll use and expand on sometime in the future. As said before there's not too much here we didn't know, but I still appreciate the group getting some more recognition.

 

[Lycanwing]

Agumon Hakase finishes with...
/I wonder if more Digimon will be developed and modified in the future...

This is interesting
Is that a hint?

 

[AquaKai]

Is that a hint?

No.

I always wanted too know who the leader is, a human or a Digimon?

All things considered, I'd say it's a human. Unless they changed direction in the meantime, the Crack Team was implied in the profiles from the first years to be this mysterious group of human baddies who used and modified Digimon for their own agenda. This was a time when the Digital World was less a fantasy world you could enter physically, and more a cyber reality connected to everything informatic, such as internet and computers. The only way to interact with Digimon was indirectly (i.e. from the human world) with a device (like the v-pet) or a computer software (see Digital Monster Ver. S). In this context, there were malicious people who used Digimon to infect computers with viruses or steal information, etc... The Crack Team was, as the name suggests, a group of Crackers who even experimented on Digimon (creating different prototypes of cyborg Digimon, which in turn lead to the birth of Mugendramon) to use them as informatic weapons.

 

[SuperStarlite]

So the implication in the old lore was that natural Digimon were primarily organic, but the blatantly cyborg or mechanical ones were the result of human experimentation?

 

[Bancho]

I was hoping MetalTyrannomon would have MetalGreymon mentioned as a anti-ground buddy.
I do wonder how other digimon like Andromon might play into this. Was Andromon only an experiment then discarded or did the team find more use of it afterwards?

 

[Theigno]

Although the article is "Advanced Digimon Info"/"Digipro Knowledge" they avoided being exhaustive with it, and didn't mention other related Digimon, like Andromon, Boltmon and others.

If anything that just confirms that those Digimon might just have not much to do with the crack team in the first place. Fans only speculated that they might because they were mentioned as being "constructed", but this alone is not exactly hard evidence especially with other experimental and prototype Digimon running around (Labramon's line and Plomton being for example fully artificial Digimon created by researchers and are not the kind of Digimon the Crack Team would care about).
There is clearly wider interest in Digimon Research in the lore so attributing nearly every android Digimon directly to the Crack Team is a bit of a reach.
Especially as Andromon's profile describes his technology as having been "appropriated" for other android Digimon which is a wording that suggest a change of hands or a difference in purpose of said technology.
(Boltmon was originally stated to have been created by "scientists" which is no longer part of his profile but I feel if there was an intention to connect him to the crack team they would have been more direct about it, like in Aegisdramon's profile which had the Crack Team references added to its original profile used in the Story games.)

The Profile doesn't clarify much in this regard.
One one hand we have the statement that the group "employs mechanical Digimon" which might imply that there are non-Digimon members, but on the other hand the mention of humans as merely "affiliates", not even as members, that's a rather weak wording if hackers are truly meant to be the creators and the ones in charge.

 

[Mattman324]

Or because he's not in the Encyclopedia since generally reports on specific Digimon species require actually having the species in it.

Multiple Digimon have been added to the Reference Book because of these things, mind.

(Boltmon was originally stated to have been created by "scientists" which is no longer part of his profile but I feel if there was an intention to connect him to the crack team they would have been more direct about it, like in Aegisdramon's profile which had the Crack Team references added to its original profile used in the Story games.)

Well, Boltmon's a Frankenstein's Monster reference, so there being a Frankenstein (or at least a Fronkensteen) who made it isn't that weird.

 

[AquaKai]

If anything that just confirms that those Digimon might just have not much to do with the crack team in the first place.

That assuming the Digimon Profile column can add new information instead of being just a practical sum of what's already stated in the single Digimon profiles.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you that not every android or mechanical Digimon is a product of the Crack team. It's just that I don't think it confirms anything, it just repeats what already stated in the Encyclopedia.

Andromon's profile describes his technology as having been "appropriated" for other android Digimon

Interestingly enough, the original Digital Monster profile, when Google-translated, states "its technology was completed with MetalGreymon and MetalMamemon.", instead of appropriated. Not sure if it's Google translating badly or they just changed the profile.

So the implication in the old lore was that natural Digimon were primarily organic, but the blatantly cyborg or mechanical ones were the result of human experimentation?

Never thought about that, it's an interesting view for sure. It prompted me to give a quick re-read of cyborg and machine digimon's original profiles and it may be verily implied, at least for the lore before Pendulum. For example, Andromon's profile says it "was developed as a prototype of Cyborg Digimon", all the other cyborg of the time have used it as a template for mechanization and I can't think of any Digimon from then who could or would do something like that. On the other hand there are machines like Nanomon who is said to have been used "to restore computers that have crashed", and Mechanorimon (which predates the Pendulum) who doesn't work without a Digimon inside it. For the first, nothing is mentioned on its origin, so it may as well have been created by humans (but it's only an interpretation); for the latter, its existence wouldn't seem different from the puppets who go on to become Monzaemon and Ex-Tyranomon, besides being mechanical in nature, however it's specifically described as a Digimon even without a pilot and it's weird to think such an existence would "naturally" be born (but again, not impossible to imagine).
With the advent of the Pendulum things get murkier, since they introduced the Chrome Digizoid Alloy already with MetalEtemon and MetalSeadramon (both Cyborg) and then a lot of mechanical digimon even at child level (Kokuwamon, Hagurumon).

As a side note, in all this search I noted that there was no mention of the Crack Team originally, so I wonder when did it appear for the first time.

 

[Yamato-san]

As a side note, in all this search I noted that there was no mention of the Crack Team originally, so I wonder when did it appear for the first time.

I don't recall hearing about the Crack Team until at least after Chaosdramon debuted, so I think during that period where Frontier ended but the X-Antibody had yet to be a thing for a few months (though depending on who you ask, Chaosdramon arguably debuted in Digimon World 2, but I'll clarify that this was its debut WITHOUT the name Chaos Lord).

 

[Geode]

Are the Crack Team a villain group?

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

Wow I really didn't expect Chaosdramon being on Stand-by Mode stored on the military base deck room style. Seeing this narrow highway ladders in that picture does prove Crack Team is HUMANS but it's obviously it's research base or shady organization with greedy scientists and military generals. But again interesting their tasks finally revealed for Mugendramon/Chaosdramon and Gundramon even Ageisdramon's purposes. But I'm sad they didn't include Mugendramon's robotic chimera freak orgins and those Perfect level Cyborg ones to add. They still only make it even more shadier and mysterious ever. I'm so happy to learn more about their tasks at finally but it didn't explain why those purposes sounded like it's military tactic formations... Oh well just keep it up updating eventually we will know its true goals or not?

 

[Bancho]

Since Bacchusmon is practically confirmed for the next Digimon Story series game (Habu said at Digimon Con that it will feature the Olympos XII as prominent characters) I really hope the game will also feature the Crack Team.
I hope Gundramon wouldn't cause any censorship concerns in a future 3D video game. His localized card in the ongoing card game had it pretty light with its 4th wall bullethole and smoke coming off its barrels being the only things removed.

 

[Unknown Neo]

Cool. So these are the enemies to the D-Brigade? These are cool picks for a somewhat hacker type group.