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[[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.
[[Category:Added value]]

==Facts==
===Chung's datapad===
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===Shuttling contraband===
===Suspected Syndicate front===
===[[Deadly Brain]]===
===Musashi blast doors and BGI vehicles===
===BGI HQ===
In a [[Lost Chapters|"Lost Chapter"]], 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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==Added value==
===Initials===
Quoting [[Hardy LeBel]] from the old {{OCF}}:
:''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===
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?

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 [[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.

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===
:''This idea will make its way into the [[Anniversary Edition]] in some form or other...
After the [[Syndicate]] is contaminated by [[Muro]], since BGI are favorable to stability and so is the [[WCG]], what makes sense is a pact between the two. The WCG can not undergo militarization at the same rate as Muro's Strikers, but it can turn a blind eye at BGI and even encourage the creation of (perfectly illegal) technology supposed to deal, in time, with whatever threat Muro represents (cyborg supersoldiers rivaling [[Barabas]], Muro and [[Mukade]], weapons rivaling the [[WMC]]). Thus the WCG doesn't technically have an army, but it counts on the unofficial BGI rather than on the [[TCTF]] to stabilize the situation. [[Griffin]], however, is unaware of these developments and thinks the only chance to restore balance is to "fight fire with fire", i.e., to make [[Konoko]] into the same kind of human weapon as Muro is. The WCG can't let Griffin know about the pact with BGI and will thus seek other ways to disrupt the [[Daodan]] project, either through investigations questioning the project's ethics and safety, or through sabotage. And of course things will ''really'' go wrong when Konoko encounters and disrupts the very entity that was supposed to counter Muro: BGI.