Gabriel Demuiré

Gabriel Demuiré
Only public photograph of Demuiré, here in the Republic of Ethalria, June 2017
Born	(1961-06-03) June 3, 1961 Descarei, Casilló y Réal
Education	Descarei Combat Academy
Known for	Founder of Quill Defense Contractors, Inc.
Spouse	Unknown wife (divorced prior to 1990)
Children	1
Military career
Allegiance	Casilló y Réal
Service/branch	Royal Corric Armed Legions
Rank	Major
Unit	4th Royal Armored Cavalry Regiment

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 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.

Early Life, Education, and Military Service

Public records are limited on Demuiré's life, particularly before his start as a businessman. Census records indicate he was born in the city of Descarei, Vizedora, Casilló y Réal 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 Descarei 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 Andoran 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.

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.