The Company of the Quill
The Company of the Quill (incorporated as Quill Defense Contractors Inc.) is a private security firm founded in 1989 by retired Royal Corric Armed Legions officer Gabriel Demuiré. The firm is headquartered and incorporated in Packilvania, though most employees are former Royal Corric Defense Force servicemembers. The Company provides a variety of armed services and training in a boutique-style compensation arrangement for private individuals, corporations, and state entities.
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| Type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| $COTQ | |
| Industry | Private defense firm |
| Founded | 8 September, 1989 |
| Headquarters | Akas Akil, Packilvania |
Area served | Novaris, Arcturia, Yasteria, Gondwana |
Key people | Gabriel Demuiré (Owner, Chief Captain) Nil Catalá (President & CEO) |
| Services | Air surveillance Air transport Air operations Canine traning Canine security Defense consulting International armory services Law enforcement training Private armed services Search and Rescue Security training Security consulting Secure storage Secure transport Static security Surveillance |
| Revenue | $6.1 billion (2020) |
| $5.8 billion | |
| $300 million | |
| Owner | Gabriel Demuiré (35% share,) Executive staff (combined 30% share,) Employees (20% share,) Investors (15% share) |
Number of employees | 147,000+ (2021) |
| Subsidiaries | Quill Defense Firm Quill Tactical Consultants Quill Engineering Quill Rapid Transit Group Quill Air Consultants Quill Tactical Systems Quill Shipping Consultants |
| Website | www.quilldefense.px |
The Company was founded in September 1989 by Gabriel Demuiré, a recently-retired Major in the Armed Legions tank corps. Demuiré felt dissatisfied with the policies on foreign intervention set in place after the coronation of King Sebastián II, which prohibited Corric military forces from being deployed overseas unless in full war. At its founding, the purpose of The Company was to provide armed security services to people, governments, and organizations that were at risk from larger entities. Operations were designed to conform with the traditional Andoran code of chivalry.
The Company found initial successes in serving as security for workers unions, protestors, travelling medical personnel, and journalists in eastern Novaris. This work helped improve the image of the firm and the number of personnel tripled between 1990 and 1996. In 1997, The Company incorporated in Packilvania, publicly due to the ability to free up funds under the relaxed business regulations in the country. There has been speculation that the regulations in Packilvania allow The Company to operate in a form closer to a mercenary army. The lack of corporate records available to the public, beyond what the firm itself publishes, has left the matter with no definitive answer. While having corporate headquarters in the city of Akas Akil, The Company has branch offices in Casilló y Réal, Arkalarius, Bana, West Cerdani, Qumar and Ostrucia.
After incorporating, the operations of the firm gradually expanded to include defense consulting, law enforcement and military training courses, canine training, secure transport and storage, search-and-rescue, air surveillance, air operations, and fortification. In 2008, TacGen Systems was acquired, which provided the necessary infrastructure and personnel to begin manufacturing of proprietary defense designs. These systems include the Q-model Ballistics Body Protection and the Q410 Wasp light tank. In 2013, the firm branched out into international armory services by acquiring Watchman Shipping Consulting, and now operates a flotilla of 17 vessels.
The Company management includes an informal board of ‘Captains’ which advises the owner and Executive Captain, Demuiré. Each Captain also serves as an executive in the corporate structure. On occasion, the firm will offer its services free of charge, though there is no known criteria for this. As of 2020, The Company has around 147,000 employees and operates across four continents on contracts and retainer for dozens of public and private clients. Most contractors are of Corric descent, but there are significant numbers of other nationalities including Kuthern, Celan, Pax, and Atlaesian.
Board of Directors
- Gabriel Deumiré - Chairman of the Board, Owner
- Nil Catalá - Chief Executive Officer
- Alicia Tumbas - Chief Personnel Officer
- Tomás Lacalandia - Chief Operations Officer
- Frederíco Gelaccia - Chief Strategy Officer
- Jon Branicevijk - Chief Communications Officer
- Miguel Remolunzo - Chief Administrative Officer
- Arturo Sincabez - Chief Technical Officer
- Morggán Marmurt - Chief Information Officer
- Magdalena Buensposa - Chief Procurement Officer
- Katerina Remolunzo - Chief Financial Officer
- Viktor Revnichov - Chief Brand Officer
Services and Products
The Company offers a variety of services and products to private, public, and government clients. These include contracted labor, manufactured goods, and transit accommodations.
Training
The Company can provide training to law enforcement, military, and emergency services such as tactics, marksmanship, first aid, crisis management, and reconnaissance. The training can be custom-tailored to the client or can be delivered through enrollment in publicly-available classes. Class-based training takes place at Company facilities, while personnel and supporting resources will be dispatched for specific training contracts.
Tonderouca Tactical Complex
The Tonderouca Tactical Complex in Casilló y Réal is located on a 2,000 acre property outside the city of Tonderouca. This facility has areas simulating urban and field environments, marksmanship ranges, two driving courses, a pool for SCUBA certifications and frogmen training, and four 8,000 square feet multipurpose training halls. As the first training center operated by The Company, Tonderouca hosts the widest variety of training classes. Included are off-road and tactical driving, hand-to-hand combat, self-defense, swimming, snorkeling, SCUBA diving, endurance, marksmanship, special sniping, armored maneuvers, anti-air defense, tacitcal urban combat, tactical rural combat, law enforcement arrest and de-escalation, pursuit driving, demolitions, explosives handling, artillery and mortar fire support, canine drug training, canine combat training, breaching and entering, hostage negotiation, first aid, field surgery, survival, orienteering, and helicopter piloting.
Tonderouca has trained over 120,000 law enforcement and first responder officers and 300,000 military personnel, as well as over 2 million single-class civilian attendees. In 2007, the Royal Corric Guard contracted the Tonderouca facility as the permanent host of the Guard's driving and canine training programs. It also hosts the Tonderouca Auxiliary Dispatch Center, which is used to coordinate operations of contractors in Novaris. As the largest Dispatch Center in the western hemisphere, it is sometimes called on to support operations in Gondwana.
There has been some interest in purchasing more land to expand the facility, though local government is resistant to the idea of Tonderouca encroaching further on farmland.
Pomesoria Castle
Pomesoria Castle in Packilvania, the operational headquarters for The Company, is used to store a large amount of the vehicles used for training purposes. The Company purchased the castle, as well as the municipal privlidges for the surrounding town and 7,000 acres. This has allowed the development of the Pomesoria Vehicle Testing and Training Range, which spans 4,000 acres. The property covers sandy arid plains as well as forests, hills, rivers, and canyons. The various driving courses, firing ranges, maintenance centers, bunkers, and cultured terrain features are one of the largest military vehicle test areas in the eastern hemisphere. The Company uses the land for trials of vehicle models produced by Quill Engineering and to train its own security forces in mobile warfare and security tactics. The Range is also able to be leased by government entities wishing to use it for their own mobile infantry and armored forces. Some training options for the Range include artillery mobility and fire support, mobile air defense training, rapid deployment tactics, asymmetric warfare against armored opponents, vehicle maneuver training, off-road evaluations, and weapon range calibrations.
Bana Training Center
A new facility opened in 2018, the Bana Training Complex is located in the capital of Newport. The facility currently offers public classes on self-defense, first aid, fire safety, weapons training, home security, and wilderness survival. The staff also is available to be contracted out to train first responders and military personnel of Bana and surrounding countries via the Bana Auxiliary Dispatch Center, though the office is limited in scope. At present only a single building, 3,000 square feet, the Bana facility is intended to allow the Company to expand operations into western Gondwana without relying on long supply chains. There have been negotiations on purchasing more real estate within the city as well as in the countryside, though progress has stalled in light of the Akronist Secession issue in neighboring Tavaris. Company leadership is debating moving the office to Crystal Coast to take advantage of increased tensions.
Großmetall Tactical Complex
A sister facility to Tonderouca, the Großmetall Tactical Complex is a 500-acre tract of land in Stahlheim that caters to similar courses. With an increased focus on helicopter operations like surveillance and firefighting, as well as urban combat tactics and HAZMAT procedure, Großmetall caters to counterterrorism and CRBN units from western Novaris and northern Gondwana as well as emergency special services. The Arkian complex also boasts the largest barracks for Company contractors when not on assignment. This adjacent complex, known colloquially as Steel Campus, rotates around four thousand personnel annually, and includes amenities such as pools, gymnasiums, a shopping center, cinema, and net cafes. This facility notably does not possess a Dispatch Center despite its size due to the Tonderouca complex already having one in place for Novaris.
Operations
The Company does not make public all of their clients, as a large number are private individuals or else prefer to remain anonymous. Since their founding they have been estimated to have completed nearly 12,000 unique contracts. The work that is publicly known is usually on a large scale, such as government retainer or in large conflicts.
Current Known Operations
Casilló y Réal
The government of Casilló y Réal has awarded several contracts to the Company, of which the following are public:
- Indefinite retainer to provide security consulting, on-site armed security, and secure transport of legal tender for the Royal Corric Reserve.
- Use of the Tonderouca Tactical Complex for the Royal Corric Guard's canine and driving training courses
- Defense consulting for the Royal Corric Defense Forces on international militaries and their capabilities
- Indefinite retainer to train new officers of the Tonderouca, Porta Armada, and Giroruña Police Departments
North Ni-Rao
North Ni-Rao has hired Company contractors to provide security and defense for population centers during the ongoing Ni-Rao Civil War, which includes active armed security, aerial surveillance, training for Northern armed personnel, civil emergency response, artillery interception and counter-battery services, and defense consulting for the loyalist military command.
New Suvan Khanate
The New Suvan Khanate has used Company services during the Third Suvani War, mostly in the form of consulting and logistical services as well as aerial surveillance. Current trends indicate the Company is considering terminating their contract with the Khanate due to underutilization and a mediocre compensation agreement.
Ellesborg
The Crown Mandate of Ellesborg has recently begun a large-scale integration process of Company services into their security doctrine due to their proximity to the Third Suvani War and the limited domestic defense options available. The Mandate's distance from Cryria means immediate reinforcement in the case of crisis is unfeasible. The Company has entered talks to establish permeant facilities in Ellesborg including a regional Dispatch Center, a training complex, contractor housing, and vehicle garages. Ellesborg is reportedly interested in retaining the Company indefinitely for cybersecurity, defense consultation, armed security services at civil and financial infrastructure, and aerial operations including transport, surveillance, and security. Several financial institutions independent of the government have also expressed interest in hiring the Company to provide cyber and armed security and legal tender transport services. The Company's presence in Ellesborg is projected to reach upwards of 15,000 personnel, with a defense emergency necessitating the deployment of an additional 20,000 contractors.
Gusanaszna
Gusanaszna has entered negotiations with the Company to provide blanket armed security for their territory, citing threats from Rusanru'a and Nystatiszna. This contract potentially has the Company hiring more than 50,000 new employees to serve as national security and defense for the Borean nation. The possibility of 'blank check' funding has been discussed but not confirmed, as anonymous sources on both sides have stressed the scope of the operations require significant workshopping. Border patrol, immigration control, aerial security, air defense and artillery batteries, and regular infantry-level mercenary operations have been theorized to be possible services Gusanaszna is looking to procure.