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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>(click for 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. | ||
==Canceled BGI HQ== | ==Canceled BGI HQ level== | ||
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. | 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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===Regional State connection=== | ===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 | 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=== | ===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.}} | {{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=== | ===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. | 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}}). | 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== | ==Mentions in final game== | ||
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===Shuttling contraband=== | ===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: | |||
{{:Quotes/Consoles/level_1a}} | |||
There are also Atmospheric Densifiers (useful for [[STURMANDERUNG]]): | |||
{{:Quotes/Consoles/level_1b}} | |||
Or it could have been something more… "fragile"; how did Musashi Manufacturing receive the human brain used for the [[Deadly Brain]] again? | |||
{{:Quotes/Consoles/level_2a}} | |||
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=== | ===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=== | ===Musashi blast doors and BGI vehicles=== | ||
{{:Quotes/Consoles/level_19a}} | |||
==Added value== | ==Added value== | ||