QUILL (Quorum for Unrestricted Information, Law, and Liberty) (私設武装組織フェザー, Privated Armed Organization Feather) is an international armed resistance group, formed by a coalition of various foreign human rights groups who protested Sumeragi's treatment of Adepts. They utilize guerrilla tactics and subtle warfare to liberate Adepts and undermine the Sumeragi Group, and are in turn denounced by Sumeragi and the general public as a terrorist group.
In truth, founding member Asimov established the organization with the ultimate goal of Adept supremacy and the extermination of normal humans. It is unknown if any of the group's other leaders are aware of this goal, and no other known members are aware of it or support the idea. However, in the Japanese script of mission Azure, he addresses Gunvolt as someone who stands in "our way" (我々の前に).
It is said that QUILL has about 100 members scattered across the world, most of whom are Adepts, with multiple divisions such as fighting units, intel units, and a weapons development department.[1] However, there were only a few in Japan fighting Sumeragi during the events of Gunvolt 1, due to the barrier Kamishiro protecting Japan making it difficult for any outside members to infiltrate the nation.[2]
One of QUILL's internal ethos is "Don't go snooping on others' septimas." Very few members know that Asimov is an Azure Striker, for example.[3]
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Known as the Quorum for Unrestricted Information, Law, and Liberty, QUILL was established by
former members of a human rights organization with the intent to rise up and stand against Sumeragi’s
inhumane and extremist ways. QUILL utilizes guerrilla tactics to rescue imprisoned adepts from
Sumeragi’s clutches and bring freedom to everyone with septimal powers around the world.
過激化する皇神（スメラギ）グループの施策に対抗するため、
海外のとある人権団体のメンバーが中核となり組織されたレジスタンスグループ。
能力者の自由を掲げ、皇神（スメラギ）に対しゲリラ戦や、皇神（スメラギ）に囚われた
第七波動（セブンス）能力者の救出などを繰り返している。
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The Quorum for Unrestricted Information, Law, and Liberty.
This resistance group was established by former members of an international human rights group in order to counteract Sumeragi's increasingly extremist policies. QUILL utilizes guerilla tactics to free the septimally gifted from Sumeragi's clutches and bring liberty to all such "Adepts" across the globe.
過激化する皇神グループの施策に対抗するため、海外のとある人権団体のメンバーが中核となり組織されたレジスタンスグループ。
能力者の自由を掲げ、皇神に対しゲリラ戦や、皇神に囚われた第七波動能力者の救出などを繰り返している。
History
Background
After going berserk and escaping from a Sumeragi lab as a boy, Asimov managed to escape overseas and joined a certain group. From then on he devoted his efforts to establishing QUILL, and eventually he and other foreign Adepts founded the organization.[4]
At some point Asimov returned to Japan and began conducting raids against Sumeragi facilities. Five years[5] before Azure Striker Gunvolt, he freed a fellow Project Gunvolt test subject, inducted the boy into QUILL, named him "Gunvolt" after the project, and acted as a father figure for him.
Having learned via wiretapping Sumeragi about the international Adept supremacist group Eden threatening to destroy Japan's national defense barrier, Asimov exploited their assault and the brief moment the barrier went down to bring fellow QUILL agents Zeno and Moniqa into the country. The duo joined him and Gunvolt to form Team Sheeps.[6]
After the hacking of Sumeragi's MMORPG September Record, QUILL took notice of the company's unusually nervous response over what should have been a mundane incident. The intelligence team looked into the subject, and from there it was discovered company mascot Lumen aka "The Muse" was an Adept detecting device, and that the MMO had been created solely as a platform for her usage.[7] With Lumen's true purpose now known, QUILL set out to prevent any more Adepts from being caught by destroying it.
Main Series
Azure Striker Gunvolt
Having uncovered that Lumen is hosted in Sumeragi's Building 1, Team Sheeps commences the mission to locate and destroy her. Gunvolt infiltrates the building, and after some trouble discovers that it has been transferred to a nearby train preparing to depart. With Moniqa serving as a navigator and Asimov providing sniper support, GV finds the train and makes his way to the car containing Lumen. There he discovers that Lumen is not actually a machine, but the septimal power of an Adept girl named Joule held captive and having her power used against her will. Defying Asimov's arguments and reaffirmed order to eliminate her, GV officially leaves QUILL, frees Joule, and the duo flee, with Team Sheeps covering their escape as Sumeragi's reinforcements converge.
Despite the falling out and his departure, QUILL still provides GV with jobs, as Joule is being pursued and GV is infamous as a QUILL agent, making civilian work difficult at best, and impossible at worst. GV and Joule are also still heavily supported by the organization, in ways such as Zeno setting up their apartment's internet connection to run through a QUILL server, or the organization forging a civilian identity for Joule so that she can live a semblance of a normal life. Team Sheeps also maintains casual contact, to the point where Joule is familiar with the three members, and Zeno often visits the apartment just to hang out.
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
Following the conclusion of the first game, Gunvolt severed all ties with QUILL and is on the run from the organization.
Around this time an overseas branch (implied to be in China, but not explicitly stated) was subverted by Eden, leading to operative Xiao Wu fleeing the country and joining up with Gunvolt in anticipation of Eden's actions in Japan. Xiao feigns loyalty to maintain his connections with QUILL, using them to supply Gunvolt with gear and intel.
Gunvolt Chronicles
Luminous Avenger iX
Following the bad ending of Gunvolt 1, Asimov would go on to nearly accomplish the true goal he founded QUILL for by secretly taking over the Sumeragi Group and reforming it into the Sumeragi Institute of Human Evolution, implementing a genocidal policy and reducing normal humans to a pitiful minority known as "Minos."
Although the name QUILL has become hundred year old history and Copen only mentions them in passing as a terrorist organization, Asimov--now going by the name Demerzel and having transcended his physical body--appears to still have strong attachments to the group's legacy. QUILL's logo can be faintly seen in the background in the innermost depths of his bunker, and the logo is emblazoned on his electron body's container as he recovers in sleep mode. He even went as far as to name the Sumeragi Institute's elite Adepts "Falcons" (
Known Agents
| Name | Position(s) and info | Profile |
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| Asimov |
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| Gunvolt |
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| Zeno |
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| Moniqa |
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| Xiao Wu |
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Trivia
- There is an unused QUILL boss emblem in Luminous Avenger iX, alongside one that resembles a Falcon Quill.
- Gunvolt is the only member of Team Sheeps who is never referred to by a codename of the form "Sheeps [x]".
References
- ↑ Dengeki Nintendo Magazine, Gunvolt's first profile/Armed Blue Gunvolt: Officially Complete Works, QUILL section
- ↑ GV and Quinn's Story
- ↑ Dengeki Nintendo Magazine, Asimov profile/Armed Blue Gunvolt: Officially Complete Works, Asimov's Sunglasses section
- ↑ Dengeki Nintendo Magazine and Armed Blue Gunvolt: Official Complete Works, Asimov's Past section
- ↑ Skybane's Gunvault interview with Takuya Aizu. Gunvolt is revealed to have been nine years old when Asimov rescued him.
- ↑ Armed Blue Gunvolt (Drama CD)
- ↑ Joule's Story
| Azure Striker Gunvolt and Luminous Avenger iX terminology | |
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| Races | Adepts • Workers • Minos |
| Organizations | Sumeragi Group (Dragon Saviors) • Shadow Yakumo • QUILL • Eden • ATEMS • Sumeragi Institute of Human Evolution • List of Minor Factions |
| Misc | Glaives • Grimoires • Binding Brands • Falcon Quills • Grave Pillar • September Record • Hexapyle |