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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 [[
== Early Life, Education, and Military Service ==
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Shining Armor was relocated to South Hills to avoid it being seized in retribution by UNAC authorities.
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.
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