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[[Image:BGI_logo.png|128px|thumb|Logo by [[User:Geyser|geyser]]<br>(click for details)]]
[[Image:BGI_logo.png|128px|thumb|logo by [[User:Geyser|geyser]]<br>[[:Image:BGI_logo.png|(details)]]]]
'''BGI''' is among the most diffuse entities in Oni, essentially because it was supposed to play a bigger part in the plot than it eventually did.
'''BGI''' is among the most diffuse entities in Oni, essentially because it was supposed to play a bigger part in the plot than it eventually did.


==Facts==
==Canceled BGI HQ level==
===Chung's datapad===
This level was intended as a confrontation with the shadowy BGI, which was later excised from the story as Oni's development ran out of time. Unfinished scripts for this level can be found in [[European Mac releases]] and the [[Oni (PlayStation 2)|PS2 port]]. The scripts contain two fragmentary cutscenes. The first describes Konoko setting a bomb and taking cover, and the resulting explosion. The other cutscene introduces the [[Iron Demon]] that would end up getting cut from the game.
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===Shuttling contraband===
===Suspected Syndicate front===
===[[Deadly Brain]]===
===Musashi blast doors and BGI vehicles===
===BGI HQ===
In a [[Pre-beta content#BGI_HQ|cut level]], the already rogue [[Konoko]] was supposed to raid the BGI's HQ. The raid involved blowing the whole place down, and fighting the [[Iron Demon]].


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This architecture looks a bit like the [[Regional State Building]] (in {{C9}}), which incidentally is linked to the Iron Demon through [[:Image:Konoko_runs_from_Iron_Demon.jpg|THIS]] image (Konoko being chased by the Iron Demon outside what looks like the Regional State Building, but could also be BGI) and also [[:Image:1999_Trailer_ID_fight.jpg|THIS]] sequence of the [[Trailers#1999|1999 gameplay trailer]]. Thus, many other pre-beta screenshots (or trailer snapshots) of the RSB architecture could in fact be glimpses of the BGI level. Hardy LeBel stated [http://oni.bungie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=52737#p52737 HERE] that architectural elements from unused levels were used in other places.
===Regional State connection===
That architecture looks a bit like the [[Regional State Building]] in {{C9}}, which incidentally is linked to the Iron Demon through [[:Image:Konoko runs from Iron Demon.jpg|this image]] of Konoko being chased by it, and also [[:Image:1999 Trailer ID fight.jpg|this sequence]] from the [[Trailers#1999|1999 trailer]]. The building in that footage looks like Regional State, but maybe it was intended to be BGI? If so, many other pre-beta screenshots (or trailer snapshots) of the RSB architecture could in fact be glimpses of the BGI level.
 
===TCTF connection===
{{Quotebox|align=none|width=850px|source=--[http://oni.bungie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=52737#p52737 Hardy LeBel], 2019|quote=The BGI level turned into TCTF HQ. [...] [A]ll of the levels in the game ultimately ended up being composites of architectural details that were stripped from various other pieces that the architects had made. The screenshots that you have of BGI were part of [an earlier, unused] building, as were a lot of the pieces of TCTF HQ.}}
Perhaps the real resemblance is to TCTF HQ?
 
===Syndicate HQ===
The number of the level, 16, would place it after Konoko meets with Kerr in Science Prison and escapes from it, and before Konoko returns to the TCTF to confront Griffin – but that's only true if the current story was in place at the time. We know that content was shuffled around late in development – so late that Bungie West couldn't even contemplate renumbering the levels to match the new arrangement, and left gaps all over the place. These gaps are examined in detail under {{SectionLink|Pre-beta content|Cut levels}}.
 
Of particular interest is that fact that Mountain Compound originally came much earlier in the level order (see {{SectionLink|Pre-beta content|Obsolete}}). Until it was moved to the end of the level order, the second-to-last level in the game would have been BGI at level16 followed by TCTF HQ Redux at level18. Significantly, Alex Okita labeled the four "BGI" images in his art gallery as "[http://jongod.oni2.net/UnarchivedFiles/ONI%20ARCHIVE%201/aic/oni400.html Syndicate headquarters]", implying that the game would end with a one-two punch of destroying the Syndicate HQ and then the TCTF HQ. (More supporting evidence for the Syndicate = BGI connection is found at {{SectionLink|Pre-beta content|BGI HQ}}.)
 
This implies that the Iron Demon at BGI HQ would be one of the final bosses in the game. The script's mention of a "roof bomb" and massive explosions heralded the destruction of the next-to-last level. The [[Oni/Early Story|Early Story]] ended the entire game with Konoko bringing down a building on everyone's heads, both the TCTF and the Syndicate, but with BGI HQ not being slated as the final mission, it's likely that the story had already changed by the time the BGI level was being scripted.
 
==Mentions in final game==
===Chung's datapad===
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===Shuttling contraband===
{{Pullquote|The Syndicate is using the warehouse to shuttle contraband. Chung went underground to gather evidence. He failed to report in this morning. Find him and get me what I need to shut the place down or shut it down yourself.|Griffin|{{SectionLink|Speech|Intro}}|inset=0%}}
 
One example of the kind of contraband being passed through the warehouse is railgun ammunition:
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There are also Atmospheric Densifiers (useful for [[STURMANDERUNG]]):
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Or it could have been something more… "fragile"; how did Musashi Manufacturing receive the human brain used for the [[Deadly Brain]] again?
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BGI was probably one of the Syndicate's "cleaner" corporations, even if it wasn't ''this'' one which took in the doctors after they did a job for the Syndicate.
 
===Suspected Syndicate front===
{{Pullquote|Musashi is owned by BGI. According to your latest report BGI is a suspected Syndicate [[wp:Front_organization|front]]. If we can prove the connection we can move against them.|Konoko|{{SectionLink|Speech|Outro}}|inset=0%}}
 
===Musashi blast doors and BGI vehicles===
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==Added value==
==Added value==
===Initials===
===Meaning of name===
Quoting [[Hardy LeBel]] from the old [http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=19685 Oni Central Forum]:
Quoting [[Hardy LeBel]] from the old [http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=19685 Oni Central Forum]:
:''I shouldn't tell you this, but BGI was the placeholder name that we started using in the story documents before everything was finalized. It stood for Bad Guys International.
:''I shouldn't tell you this, but BGI was the placeholder name that we started using in the story documents before everything was finalized. It stood for Bad Guys International.
As we know, "BGI" was retained for the final release of Oni, although the humorous "Bad Guys International" interpretation was never mentioned.
Here are other fair enough guesses of what '''BGI''' may have "actually" stood for:
*Big Guns International
*Bad Guy Industries
*Blackwater Gone Insane
*Be Good, Inc.
That's all half serious, but "Be Good" is a nice slogan.


===Status and role===
===Status and role===
As can be inferred from Konoko's statements, BGI is some kind of "shadow front" : a big industrial consortium (probably multinational) that's pretty much legit, but is nevertheless suspected to deal with the infamous [[Syndicate]].
As can be inferred from Konoko's statements, BGI is some kind of "shadow front": a big industrial consortium (probably multinational) that's pretty much legit, but is nevertheless suspected to deal with the infamous [[Syndicate]].
Whether it actually does and at what level and to what end is again sorta diffuse : is it opportunistic/mercenary, or is it subordinated to Muro?
Whether it actually does and at what level and to what end is again sorta diffuse: is it opportunistic/mercenary, or is it subordinated to Muro?
 
It's also not clear whether [[Konoko]]'s and [[Griffin]]'s zealous crackdown on BGI is supported by the rest of the [[TCTF]] and [[WCG]].
There's a subtle balance of power between the WCG and the Syndicate, and both sides (especially the WCG) are interested in preserving it.


BGI is an ambiguous organization, poised between WCG and Syndicate, halfway between legal and illegal : a third party of its own.
It's also not clear whether [[Konoko]]'s and [[Griffin]]'s zealous crackdown on BGI is supported by the rest of the [[TCTF]] and [[WCG]]. There's a subtle balance of power between the WCG and the Syndicate, and both sides (especially the WCG) are interested in preserving it. BGI is an ambiguous organization, poised between WCG and Syndicate, halfway between legal and illegal: a third party of its own.


It would seem to [[User:geyser|me]] that even as the core of Muro's Syndicate got corrupted by [[Muro]]'s [[wiktionary:megalomania|megalomania]] and the [[STURMANDERUNG]] perspective, BGI managed to retain the spirit of the pre-Muro Network and Syndicate : they stayed focused on steady business, as opposed to maniacal violence and global biological terrorism.
It would seem to [[User:geyser|me]] that even as the core of Muro's Syndicate got corrupted by [[Muro]]'s [[wikt:megalomania|megalomania]] and the [[STURMANDERUNG]] perspective, BGI managed to retain the spirit of the pre-Muro Network and Syndicate: they stayed focused on steady business, as opposed to maniacal violence and global biological terrorism.


As long as it helps shuttle the Syndicate's contraband, BGI actually stabilizes the bipolar structure. The Syndicate keeps itself busy and feels in power; the TCTF get a chance to reinforce their credibility as crime-fighters. Same for weapons, and the insecurity they generate : conflict helps the WCG to constantly reestablish itself in the public's eyes as the only alternative to chaos.
As long as it helps shuttle the Syndicate's contraband, BGI actually stabilizes the bipolar structure. The Syndicate keeps itself busy and feels in power; the TCTF get a chance to reinforce their credibility as crime-fighters. Same for weapons, and the insecurity they generate: conflict helps the WCG to constantly reestablish itself in the public's eyes as the only alternative to chaos.


Naturally the people behind BGI would be aware of that stabilizing role, and it would actually be quite understandable that the prospect of an all-out crisis (collapse of WCG's authority, anarchy brought about by [[Muro]]) should keep them "doing the Devil's work" : obstinately promoting skirmish-scale violence looks like the only way to keep Oni's world together.
Naturally the people behind BGI would be aware of that stabilizing role, and it would actually be quite understandable that the prospect of an all-out crisis (collapse of WCG's authority, anarchy brought about by [[Muro]]) should keep them "doing the Devil's work": obstinately promoting skirmish-scale violence looks like the only way to keep Oni's world together.


===Another idea===
===Another idea===
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There's an unrelated [https://bgigroup.ca/projects-1 BGI Group] which constructs massive buildings in the U.S., Canada and Panama.
There's an unrelated [https://bgigroup.ca/projects-1 BGI Group] which constructs massive buildings in the U.S., Canada and Panama.


There is also a real-world company named [https://www.bgiworldwide.com/ BGI Worldwide Logistics], no relation to [[User:Iritscen/BGI/Overview |this]].
There is also a real-world company named [https://www.bgiworldwide.com/ BGI Worldwide Logistics], no relation to [[User:Iritscen/BGI/Overview|this]].


Lastly, let's not overlook [https://binarygroup.com/ Binary Group, Inc.], which does… something we're not entirely clear on. "Transformational initiatives"? The fact that they have connection to '''DoD''' at one hand while also doing "'''Asset''' Management" makes them extra-shady. XD
Lastly, let's not overlook [https://binarygroup.com/ Binary Group, Inc.], which does… something we're not entirely clear on. "Transformational initiatives"? The fact that they have a connection to the '''DoD''' while also doing "'''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance Asset]''' Management" makes them extra-shady.


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