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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. Work-in-progress 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. | 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. Work-in-progress 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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===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. | ||
Of particular interest is that fact that Mountain Compound originally came much earlier in the level order (see {{SectionLink|Pre-beta content|Obsolete}}). If TCTF II and Compound hadn't been placed at level18 and level19 and nothing was ever produced for level17, ''the last level in the game would have been BGI at level16''. This leads us to an intriguing finding, which is that 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]". Was BGI originally synonymous with the Syndicate? | Of particular interest is that fact that Mountain Compound originally came much earlier in the level order (see {{SectionLink|Pre-beta content|Obsolete}}). If TCTF II and Compound hadn't been placed at level18 and level19 and nothing was ever produced for level17, ''the last level in the game would have been BGI at level16''. This leads us to an intriguing finding, which is that 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]". Was BGI originally synonymous with the Syndicate, or perhaps was revealed to be the organization that really runs it? | ||
If so, this implies the fight with the Iron Demon to be a "final boss", and the script's mention of a "roof bomb" and massive explosions as a climactic destruction of the final level. Note the [[Oni/Early Story|Early Story]], which ended with Konoko bringing down a building on everyone's heads. Was the BGI level script leading to the planned ending where everyone but Konoko dies? | If so, this implies the fight with the Iron Demon to be a "final boss", and the script's mention of a "roof bomb" and massive explosions as a climactic destruction of the final level. Note the [[Oni/Early Story|Early Story]], which ended with Konoko bringing down a building on everyone's heads. Was the BGI level script leading to the planned ending where everyone but Konoko dies? | ||
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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 "'clean' 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 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== | ||