Mago Group

The Mago Group (occasionally shortened to simply Mago) is the massive corporation which owns Mago City, the setting in which the events of SANABI takes place. As the protagonist pursues Sanabi through the empty city, Mari attempts to convince the protagonist to investigate Mago Group's secrets, and they begin to uncover a mysterious conspiracy between Sanabi and the corrupt corporation.
== Organization ==
The Mago Group was founded approximately fifty years prior to the game's events, and is presumably organized like many other corporations, with a small board of directors at the very top. It is said to be the largest corporation in the country, and as such, it carries a massive amount of economic and political influence alike. This influence is significant enough that they privately own a massive megacity as their headquarters, owned and operated entirely by the corporation.
Despite their influence, the Mago Group is not immune to the laws of the Royal Court, and as such, they are still forbidden from capital offenses such as treason and the research of banned technologies. As a result, the corporation is extremely meticulous about hiding any traces of wrongdoing, going so far as to kill their employees and program their entire city to self-destruct should their security be compromised.
Although their public image is quite popular among civilians, the corporation is shown to lack morals of any sort, fully willing to lie, kill, and steal to accomplish their goals. Even high-level employees are considered entirely expendable to Mago Group, and they will dispose of those who are no longer useful to them without hesitation. Behind the scenes, the Mago Group's directors harbor a deep resentment for the Royal Court and their laws, and hope to one day take control of the entire country for themselves.
The board of directors consist of four known individuals, including the company's chairman, who are each given control of different parts of the company:
* Mago CEO Na E-lon
* Mago Products CEO Choi Gyeon
* Mago Electronics CEO Sylvia
* Chairman Kim
== Throughout SANABI ==
After an apparent attack by Sanabi on the corporation's private city, the protagonist is dispatched to investigate the mysterious disappearance of its citizens, rescue the sole survivor, Mari, and ultimately find Sanabi. Though no living members of Mago Group are present, the city's rogue automated defenses attack the protagonist, including the city's demolition machine, Writ of Execution. The protagonist questions Mari about the data she found within the city, but she reveals that Mago's networks have been wiped clean, leaving no evidence as to what has happened in the city.
After devising a plan to steal the data from Writ of Execution's black box, the two destroy the crusher, and Mari discovers an electronic key to Mago's executive offices above the slums. Inside, Mari finds that all the data, including the link to the black box, have also been destroyed; however, she finds a corrupt file related to Sanabi, revealing they are at the top floor of Mago City. She also discovers that the Mago Group plans to overload and detonate the city's nuclear reactor, due to their security being compromised, presumably as a result of Sanabi's actions.
Mari implores the protagonist to investigate Mago's suspicious activities further, but he has little concern, being focused entirely on finding Sanabi. However, the two continue to work together to reach the top floor, attempting to hijack a vertical train in the city's business district. They discover that the train is rigged with automated defenses to attack anyone attempting to board it, and the two narrowly survive, with the protagonist falling unconscious in the process.
After regaining consciousness, Mari tells the protagonist that the train engine self-destructed, and the protagonist concludes that the train was rigged by Mago Group from the very beginning. After he reveals that he intends to make his hunt for Sanabi a suicide mission, Mari sympathizes with him, revealing that the Mago Group murdered her father, and that she came to the city to investigate them. The protagonist allows Mari to continue assisting him, and the two devise a new plan to steal a flying car instead.
Mari explains that the Mago Group bought the entire city's worth of flying cars in order to rent them to citizens, who need them to traverse the city's vertical landscape. The two find the warehouse containing the cars, but Justice intervenes, destroying the cars and attacking the protagonist. After defeating "her," and her copies, the protagonist reveals their opponent to be a robotic copy of the real Justice, mass-produced by Mago Group.
At this revelation, the protagonist and Mari discuss the illegality of Mago Group's actions, as making a digital copy of human personalities is considered an extreme criminal offense. Although the protagonist remains focused on finding Sanabi, he suspects that Sanabi's presence in the city may be directly tied to Mago Group's activities, and begins to grow increasingly suspicious of the corporation and their apparent self-destruction of their own city. The two finally manage to reach the top level of the city through the central factory, though Mari is knocked unconscious in their escape.
While asleep, she has a flashback to the events of three days prior, where she is shown to be obsessively investigating the Mago Group and their activities. She pays a hacker colleague to break into Mago's files, and they uncover a folder labeled the "Sanabi Project." Mari is alarmed by this, and the hacker explains that the Sanabi Project involves the control of digital personalities; a capital offense under the laws of the Royal Court. Unfortunately, the Mago Group traces this breach to the hacker, and they are killed by Mago's security forces. They discover that the Sanabi Project was leaked, and immediately order the disposal of all evidence related to it.
The two proceed to Mago's headquarters, where Mari claims Sanabi is hiding, but the protagonist finds it entirely devoid of people, like the rest of the city. After interacting with a computer in a secure room, he suddenly discovers the building to be full of corpses. Mari explains Mago Group has been purposely causing the self-destruction of the city in order to cover up the crime of "[his] mere existence," but before she can explain further, they are nearly attacked by an automated statue, before Major Song intervenes and destroys it.
After beating the protagonist and apprehending Mari, the protagonist is left with a choice to pursue Sanabi, who Mari claims are hiding in the basement, or to turn back and save Mari. Should the player choose to hunt down Sanabi, they discover Mago security personnel purposely attempting to overload the city's reactor in order to save Mago Group. Believing them to be with Sanabi, he slaughters all but one of them. The survivor attempts to explain that Sanabi does not exist, but he is executed as well, before the protagonist shuts down.
Should the player choose to save Mari, the protagonist battles Major Song, who claims he is a combat android. After being incapacitated by Colonel Baek, the protagonist is knocked unconscious by Major Song and moved aboard a plane out of the city. While shut down, the protagonist begins to explore his memories and several classified recordings from the Mago Group, exposing the truth of their activities and their apparent connection to Sanabi.
The protagonist is revealed to be a digital copy of the real general's personality, created by his daughter (revealed to be Mari) and acquired by the Mago Group. In order to create the perfect assassin, the directors of Mago Group coerced their research team into manipulating his personality into a killing machine. After much difficulty, mainly stemming from an abstract mental concept known as "Sanabi," Mago's researchers finally accomplished this by convincing the personality data that his daughter had been killed in a bombing by a terrorist group known as "Sanabi." By doing this, they could convince him to attack any target of their choosing by substituting them for Sanabi.
Due to the extremely treasonous nature of the project, Mago Group instituted several strict security protocols in the event of a leak, including the termination of all employees, the deletion of all company data, and the self-destruction of Mago City itself, in order to cover any evidence from the Royal Court. After ten years of labor, the research team finally completed the project, now titled the "Sanabi Project," before being summarily executed by Mago's security forces. The Mago Group is revealed to be planning a coup against the Royal Court, by uploading the Sanabi Project into tens of thousands of Worker drones to create a secret army.
Mari further elaborates in her journal that she initially created her father's personality data in an attempt to help him cope with the loss of his wife. However, Mago had secretly installed a backdoor in her computer, and sent hitmen to kill her father and steal the data. After this, they executed their own assassins, removing all traces of their involvement. Following this, Mari spent the next decade investigating the Mago Group, eventually discovering the Sanabi Project and their treasonous conspiracy.
In an attempt to bring her father back, Mari uploaded the stolen Sanabi Project into a Worker drone and programmed it to believe Sanabi was responsible for the self-destruction of the city. By stopping the nuclear reactor from detonating, it would save the lives of the innocent civilians (who never disappeared, but were instead imperceptible due to his programming) who would be killed in the city's destruction. Unfortunately, as he did not pursue Sanabi, the reactor has gone critical, forcing the protagonist to sacrifice his life in Mari's place to disable it.
In the aftermath of the events in Mago City, the Royal Court launches an investigation into the Mago Group's activities. As they presumably learn of Mago's treasonous conspiracy, they begin to execute surviving executives of the company, and the city's residents discuss that the Royal Court will likely take direct control of the city. The ultimate fate of the company's directors is unknown, though the company as a whole is likely dissolved.