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''If you are looking for the individual serving as the Royal Adjutant on the Antoran Royal Cabinet and former head of Quill Defense Contractors, Inc., see [[Astolfo de Naranza-Carratéo]]''
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| name = Gabriel Demuiré
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|6|3}}
| birth_place = Descarei[[Descarai]], [[Casilló y RéalAntora]]
| death_date = August 19, 1985 (age 24)
| death_place = Fort Vincezno Airbase, Castevija, Antora
| known_for = FounderPurported founder of [[The Company of the Quill|Quill Defense Contractors, Inc.]]<br>
Assumed identity of Astolfo de Naranza-Carratéo
|spouse = Unknown wife (divorced prior to 1990)
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|education = Descarei Combat Academy
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|rank = [[File:Spain-Army-OF-3.svg|15px]] MajorLieutenant-Colonel (posthumous)
|unit = 4th Royal Armored Cavalry Regiment
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'''Gabriel Demuiré''' (born June 3, 1961) is a Corric businessman, entrepreneur, and former soldier in the [[Royal Corric Armed Legions]], and founder of the private military company [[The Company of the Quill|Quill Defense Contractors, Inc.]] He has served as the Chairman of the Board for QDC since its founding in 1989, and formerly served as CEO until 1995. He also owns the non-profit organizations International Code Group and The Defusing Authority, and the [[South Hills]]-based private equity firm Shining Armor Investments. Considered an outlier in Corric business culture through his controversial and interventionalist corporate policies regarding mercenaries, he is nonetheless popular for his investments into refugee relief funds and other humanitarian causes such as demining.
'''Gabriel Demuiré''' (June 3, 1961-August 19, 1985) was an Antoran soldier. He served as part of the 10th Armored Legion as a tank crewman and officer, taking command of the First Armored Cavalry Squadron in 1985 with the rank of Captain. He was notable for developing the Demuiré Plan, a strategy of armored warfare that used misdirection and the psychology of opponents, which is in use by the Royal Antoran Armed Legions. Demuiré was killed in battle during the 1985 Corric Succession Crisis against Loyalist forces. Due to his good reputation, lack of public interactions, and a striking similarity to former Crown Prince Astolfo de Naranza-Carratéo, Demuiré's identity was assumed by the Prince in order to fake his own death. This facilitated the long-term acquisition of support and resources by the Prince, allowing him to ultimately reveal the corruption and conspiracies that caused the Succession Crisis. In 2022, as recognition for his sacrifice in the line of duty and the use of his identity, Demuiré's promotion to Major was officially reclassified as a postumous promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel.
== Early Life, Education, and Military Service ==
Public records are limited on Demuiré's life, particularly beforedue histo startobfuscation asand acensorship after his businessmandeath. Census records indicate he was born in the city of Descarei, Vizedora, [[Casilló y RéalDescarai]], Cartevedra, Antora to Edgar and Julieta Demuiré. He was an only child, and his parents died before he was ten. He began living with his aunt and grandmother in the DescareiDescarai suburb of La Vontra around 1970. Police records show the adolescant Demuiré was a semi-regular offender of grafitti, vandalism, and petty theft, while also indicating he displayed aptitude for problem solving and was generally an intelligent and good natured, if misguided, youth. A noted interest in medieval history and AndoranAntoran culture took root in this time, with records suggesting Demuiré was a member of the Amateur Historians Association and the La Vontra Reenactment Troupe late in high school.
Demuiré enrolled in the Descarei Combat Academy in 1979, at age 17, automatically becoming a member of the [[Royal Corric Defense Forces]]. As a student at the Combat Academy, he took all requisite basic training courses for the FDCR and advanced classes regarding armored warfare, logistics, strategy, and personnel management. General education classes also qualified him for a B.A. in economics. In 1981 Demuiré graduated fifth in his class as a Junior Lieutenant. He was assigned to the First Armored Cavalry Squadron, of the 4th Royal Armored Cavalry Regiment, 10th Armored Legion and served for two years as a gunner, then being promoted to First Lieutenant. ▼
Demuiré saved his commander's life during an unspecified accident during a 10th Legion wargame, the details of which are classified. He also pioneered an armored warfare tactic that is currently in use by Corric tank doctrine. These two achievements saw Demuiré promoted to Captain in 1985, placed in charge of the First A.C. Squadron. At some point in this period, he married and had one son, though by 1990 the two divorced. ▼
His unit would be trained using his own unique brand of tactics, which unfortunately did not help during the 1985 Corric Succession Crisis. The 4th Royal Armored Cavalry Regiment was deployed to capture Fort Vincezno Airbase, which was being held by the air forces declared treasonous in support of Prince Astolfo. The First A.C. was subject to several strafing runs and bombings by the rebellious forces, leaving Demuiré in a coma and most of his subordinates dead. ▼
Demuiré took five months to recover from his injuries. The Armed Legions gave him the Distinguished Merit Medal for Service, but citing psychological stress, placed him into a position training armored vehicle crews. He soon was transferred to a clerical position overseeing maintenance crews instead. After a brief period of reinstatement as an artillery commander in 1987 through 1988, Demuiré was promoted to Major and was discharged honorably from service in 1989. Demuiré, in one of several rare interviews, stated he was extremely dissatisfied with this course, as in his views the recently-coronated [[Sebastián II]] "would rather ignore those who have seen our military deficiencies first hand than to have them help address those deficiencies."
== Private Career ==
Demuiré moved to Tonderouca in southern Castijara and founded Quill Defense Contractors with several associates he knew from military service. Using combined funds, the group purchased an office and storage space in the city and began recruitment of security specialists and recently discharged or retired Corric military personnel. According to recruiting material from this period, QDC accepted only those who could provide several personal references and proof of honorable discharge, if a veteran. Longtime associate Alicia Tumbas has been quoted as saying this was implemented by Demuiré to "weed out the thugs and idiots whose only reason to hold a gun is to feel powerful." Influenced somewhat by medieval Andoran mercenary practices, Demuiré gave QDC its colloquial name of "The Company of the Quill." QDC contractors now use "The Company" when referring to their employer.
The QDC operations were spearheaded and often personally led by Demuiré, and included providing security details for private individuals, training law enforcement and security forces for Corric and foreign governments, and as anti-abuse of power presences at large-scale protests. Between 1990 and 1995, the company expanded rapidly, securing nearly $900 million in private and government contracts across eastern [[Novaris]]. As the reputation of his firm grew, Demuiré signed off on expanding operations into an international rather than regional scope.
An unknown number of classified contracts with government and nongovernment entities in this period provided enough revenue for QDC to purchase the Pomesoria Castle in southern Ashura, [[Packilvania]], and the land surrounding it. The company incorporated in 1997 in the city of Akas Akil, forming an international headquarters there and moving their operational headquarters to Pomesoria, though the Tonderouca offices would be retained as the company's Corric branch. Demuiré personally recruited several current QDC executives during this period, taking more strategic control over the company while leaving day-to-day matters to delegated officers.
In 2003, Demuiré authorized the creation of branch offices in [[Arkalarius]] and [[Qumar]], citing increased demand in those regions for private security and training. He also spoke to a Corric investor panel in July, announcing the creation of Quill Rapid Transit Group. This subsidiary, the first of many for QDC, was devoted to the secure and safe transport of money and other valuables. QRTG is now one of the largest international security and transport services in use by banks, mints, jewelers, and private individuals. Demuiré would officially inaugurate Quill Air Consultants and Quill Defense Firm in 2006 to provide boots-on-the-ground services to governments and air combat, transport, and surveillance options.
While QDC does not disclose its clients publicly, there is evidence that Demuiré was present in some capacity at several low-level conflicts in the early and mid 2000's. He has expressed a personal interest in making sure "things turn out honorably," an attitude which has been echoed by all QDC contractors whenever asked their intentions about their work.
TacGen Systems, owned by Corric veteran Manuel Goméz, was often a partner with QDC, supplying weapons and equipment. When Goméz died in 2008, Demuiré pushed for the acquisition of his company by QDC, citing his "friends' wish for a more honorable form of warfare" to the company board. The acquisition was eventually successful, and transferred ownership of weapons factories and development centers in northern [[Gondwana]], as well as all TacGen IPs and schematics, to QDC. The company would be known as Quill Engineering going forwards.
In 2013, QDC acquired Watchman Shipping Consulting, a private maritime security company, after a controversial period of events. The Chairman and CEO of Watchman, Douglas Kilvahill, had been in talks for several months with Demuiré about a proposed buyout. Kilvahill had proved reticent and unsure of the opportunity. He eventually agreed to invite Demuiré to tour one of Watchman's floating armories, speculated to be a move designed to increase the proposed buyout price. While the two men were aboard the vessel, it came under attack by unknown assailants in speedboats and a helicopter. Many Watchman personnel were killed, including Kilvahill, and the armory contents stolen. Watchman board members accused Demuiré of manufacturing the attack, though no conclusive evidence ever surfaced and the matter was dropped. QDC bought out Watchman five months later for $1.2 billion, $800 million less than what Kilvahil had proposed. Watchman would come under the QDC umbrella as Quill Shipping Consultants.
While QDC did have some small involvement in the 2017 [[Auroran-Pacific War]], Demuiré was forced to have suspend operations in Aurora after the war. The [[United Nations of the Auroran Continent]] made private security and risky and highly-scrutinized business on the continent, and QDC shuttered their offices in January 2018. This coincided with a steep loss of revenue, estimated to be over half a billion dollars. Demuiré was nearly subpoenaed by the UNAC to testify on QDC operations, though the matter was eventually dropped as the process of securing his cooperation was too difficult.
Demuiré briefly returned to Casilló y Réal in 2018 to give a lecture to the Royal Corric Guard on deployment of troops in asymmetric warfare situations. He opened the QDC division Quill Tactical Systems later that year to focus on developing computer equipment for combat vehicles and aircraft.
In his first statement to press about QDC operations in 2020, Demuiré stated that certain contractor elements of the corporation had been hired to protect population centers and infrastructure in North [[Ni-Rao]] as part of the [[Ni-Rao Civil War]]. He stated his hope that the Quill personnel would provide "professional and heartwarming protection to those as unfortunate enough to be caught in such a heated conflict."
Shortly after the outbreak of the [[Third Suvani War]] in 2021, international press noted Demuiré visiting parts of the country with known QDC advisors and personnel. While the involvement of his security professionals remained, he did speak to officials from the New Suvan Khanate, suggesting negotiations for Quill deployment. Later that April, QDC did deploy several hundred security contractors and company vehicles to assist the NKS in a support role.
== Charity Work ==
Demuiré would use his personal wealth to start Shining Armor Investments in [[Tivot]] in 2009. A private equity firm, much of its revenue was generated in early years by investments into green energy, smartphones, internet services, shipping, and microchips. Currently the seventh-largest private equity firm owned by a Corric national, Shining Armor allowed Demuiré to form the non-profit International Code Group in 2011, which focuses on providing housing, food, and clothing to homeless and disadvantaged persons in developed countries that lack a social safety net.
▲Demuiré enrolled in the DescareiDescarai Combat Academy in 1979, at age 17, automatically becoming a member of the [[Royal CorricAntoran Defense Forces]]. As a student at the Combat Academy, he took all requisite basic training courses for the FDCR and advanced classes regarding armored warfare, logistics, strategy, and personnel management. General education classes also qualified him for a B.A. in economics. In 1981 Demuiré graduated fifth in his class as a Junior Lieutenant. He was assigned to the First Armored Cavalry Squadron, of the 4th Royal Armored Cavalry Regiment, 10th Armored Legion and served for two years as a gunner, then being promoted to First Lieutenant.
With profits increasing to nearly $3 billion in 2015, Demuiré founded his second NGO, The Defusing Authority. In an interview to a Packilvanian reporter, he cited he often observed warzones QDC operated in being heavily mined. These mines would rarely be collected and defused after a conflict, and harmed people, infrastructure and general quality of life. TDA was designed to move in after hostilities die down and remove unexploded ordinance and minefields, guarded by QDC personnel. Today The Defusing Authority has defused over 2 million reported mines and disposed of nearly 250,000 artillery shells.
▲Demuiré saved his commander's life during an unspecified accident during a 10th Legion wargame, the details of which arehave been classified or otherwise lost. He also pioneered an armored warfare tactic that is currently in use by CorricAntoran tank doctrine. These two achievements saw Demuiré promoted to Captain in 1985, placed in charge of the First A.C. Squadron. At some point in this period, he married and had one son , though by 1990 the two divorced.
Shining Armor was relocated to South Hills in 2018 to avoid it being seized in retribution for "undisclosed criminal activities" by UNAC authorities.
▲His unit would be trained using his own unique brand of tactics, which unfortunately did not help during the 1985 Corric Succession Crisis. The 4th Royal Armored Cavalry Regiment was deployed to capture Fort Vincezno Airbase, which was being held by the air forces declared treasonous in support of Prince Astolfo. The First A.C. was subject to several strafing runs and bombings by the rebellious forces, leavingkilling Demuiré in a coma and mostall ofothers hisin subordinatesthe deadunit.
Estimates of how much money Demuiré has donated to various charities and other NGOs since 2000 is approximately $2 billion.
== Personal LifePost-death ==
After the Battle of Porto Francisco, Prince Astolfo was secreted to the mainland by members of his household and intelligence network to recover from his injuries. While the Prince recuperated, the narrative was pushed by both his network and the Crown's that he had perished at Porto Francisco. The contingency plan the Prince designed for an underground opposition to his father, King Benito Ares, was initiated. Calling for the Prince to assume a false identity if he was alive, the contingency eventually chose Demuiré as the basis for the new persona. His ideals were moderate enough that either side of the political spectrum would find him non-threatening, his service record indicated an intelligent soldier loyal to the Crown and injured in combat against percieved traitors, and his facial features and coloration closely matched that of the Prince. Over a period of five months, the Prince assumed the identity of Demuiré through study, acting, and a series of minor cosmetic surgeries. The limp he acquired from Porto Francisco was easily attributed to Fort Vincezno instead.
Not much is known about Demuiré as a private individual. Certain groups, whether on their own or on his direction, have made efforts to remove or otherwise obfuscate records regarding his childhood and early adulthood; there remain today no surviving documents detailing his service with the Corric military beyond the basic papers regarding enlistments, transfers, promotions, and discharge. No surviving family exist in the census and the status and even names of his wife and child remain unknown, suggesting either the marriage and birth occurred in a different, unknown nation, or the deliberate disposal of relevant documentation.
The Prince entered the Armed Legions upon his recovery and assumed all the duties and lifestyle habits of the deceased Demuiré. He would maintain this cover for a further three decades, transitioning from military life to civilian in 1987 to further facilitate the acquisition of resources and a stronger pull with powerful individuals inside and outside of the government. Demuiré's relatives were distressed at "his" change in personality, but complicit Armed Legion doctors and psychologists attributed it to PTSD and a changed outlook on life after coming so close to death. His grandmother and aunt never raised any serious concerns and died in 2003 and 2005 with no knowledge of Demuiré's fate. Likewise, Demuiré's wife divorced "him" in 1989 due to the differences.
Various investigative journalists over the years have written about clients having hired them to discreetly look into Demuiré for business or personal reasons. Military personnel who served in the same units as him cite personal privacy when contacted, or else are already employed by QDC and refuse to meet. Those instructors at the Combat Academy who are taught him are either dead or at such advanced age cannot recall individual students. Classmates from public school only seem to remember a young man who loved books and had no friends beyond his dog.
In 2022, after the culmination of the Red Eagle Project, the arrests and executions of treasonous members of Antoran government and society, and a reform of the government and monarchy, Astolfo was granted the titles of Prince-Emeritus and Royal Adjutant by his brother, King [[Sebastián II]]. His first act in this position was to acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices Demuiré unknowingly provided his country and the role he had in allowing the Prince-Emeritus to expose the anti-democratic and terrorist factions within Antora. The Prince-Emeritus requested the King to posthumously promote Demuiré, declaring "though it [was] a small comfort, it [was] the least [he] could do for a man who gave our nation so much, whose name allowed [him] to work unseen for the better future of all Antoran peoples." After the request was granted, a gravestone in the Royal Military Heroes Cemetary was also commissioned with Demuiré's new rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Demuiré himself has only spoken to members of the press and public a dozen times, usually on spontaneous snap occasions or special announcements regarding business ventures. He had said that his privacy is something he values a great deal as it is "difficult to come by in the modern world of connectivity." Business experts have theorized that as the head of such a large and developed private security organization, the less Demuiré allows people to know gives them less leverage against him.
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