Muinon Gilmore

Muinon Gilmore, more famously known by his Bardonian alias Robert Gilmore or his medical name Dr. Muinon Gilmore PhD, is a geneticist and businessman from Hloamar. He is most well known for his involvement as third CEO of the Gen II Corporation, and the operations and controversies that have concerned the company in the late-970s & 980s ACA. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Muinon Gilmore was born to a middle-class family in Hloamar on the 4th Heicane, 925 ACA. From a young age, Gilmore took interest in the scientific field, gaining a basic education in biology, chemistry and mathematics by age 16. From there, Gilmore moved to Lhûmar, where he gained a PhD and a degree in genetics by 945 ACA. Following a short stint as an employee of a café in the Harmony District, Gilmore was signed on by the Gen II Corporation as a geneticist and later Head of Business Affairs. Within the company, he forged close relationships with his co-workers, one of which, a certain Logistics Manager Garend Blue, would result in him gaining great benefit in the future. His role as Head of Business Affairs would quickly become much more challenging than anticipated, however, after the Macmar Island Incident.
=== Macmar Island Incidentand Operation Cleansweep ===
Following the abandonment of Site A and Site B later in the year by Gen II, Gilmore's role as Head of Business Affairs became critical as he had to essentially keep the company afloat as investors pulled out and the company struggled to stay out of bankruptcy. The following year, Gilmore himself would visit Site A for the first time, extracting remaining genetics equipment from the Discovery Centre. Whilst there, it was revealed to him what really happened at the island, getting to witness the Andisaurus specimen for himself as he left. Later, during the 960-61 ACA Gen II Inquiry, Gilmore clarified that he had no true idea of the full extent of Operation Cleansweep in 946, and that parts of the operation, including liquidation of certain species types, was hidden from him and most of the company. 
=== Garend Blue Administration and Malkkengarun Incident ===
Once Garend Blue succeeded John Pitchardson Rex as CEO of Gen II in 947 ACA, Gilmore quickly succeeded him as Logistics Manager, and was responsible for organising most of Garend's plans to get the company back on its feet. It was known that from this point onwards Gilmore had full knowledge of what Blue had planned years prior to the execution of the plans. Gilmore was almost removed from his post following the horrific failure of Operation Extraction I, however remained upon the condition that he alongside Garend would accompany the mercenaries to the island when the second operation, Extraction II, went underway in 960.
Gilmore accompanied the Gen II mercenary team, also known as the Hunters, to the Malkkengarun when Extraction II began on the 12th Heicane 960 ACA. He bared witness to his work, 8 years of planning, and also watched it all come crashing down over the following 2 days, which can be attributed to both underestimations of the impact the dinosaurs would have on the operation and Rex's research team (aka 'the Survivors') interference in the plan. When the evacuation was completed, Gen II left with nothing except a collection of blood vials and a Manothronax specimen, which broke out on the mainland and resulted in the death of Garend Blue. In the inquiry the following year, Gilmore accepted full responsibility for the liabilities of Operation Extraction II and also paid a total of 15% of the damages fee.
=== Rise to Power Within Gen II ===
Following the death of Garend Blue and the subsequent Gen II Inquiry of the Malkkengarun Incident, John Pitchardson Rex reassumed the position of CEO of Gen II, beginning the Second Rex Administration from 960 to 977 ACA. Gilmore was promoted to Chief Geneticist of Gen II in 964 ACA, and over the following decade became a close friend of the aging Rex, whose health was rapidly deteriorating from 967 ACA to his death 11 years later. Rex was noted saying in 975 that Gilmore would be a 'worthy successor to the position of this company and bring us out of the dark times that hold us back'. Following a sudden decline in health in 977 ACA, Rex was deemed to ill to continue his role, and Gilmore was placed as acting CEO until Rex's passing the following year. Once Rex had passed, Gilmore assumed the title of CEO completely and had successfully taken control of the company.
=== Human Studies Project and Lisse Tencandis===
Following his succession to the role of Chief Geneticist in 964 ACA, Gilmore embarked on a campaign to 'guide the company in a new direction using old tactics'. What he proposed was the Human Studies Project, a belief that if a human being and/or Celestial Elf, from birth, was put in near-total isolation, it was possible to unlock the other 50-90% of the civilised brain's abilities, including mystical abilities such as telekinesis and other mind powers. The Human Studies Project would embark on 45 different genetic experiments involving human and elven foetuses, however very few of them would make it to birth. The children were only allowed to see Gilmore and a very small group of purposefully selected staff members, however the entire complex the experiment was based in was monitored by security cameras. The experiment was completed in five series of five to ten experiments.
* First Series, aka 'the Noughties Series' (969 ACA) - 9 Human Foetus experiments. Very few survived to birth, and garnered very lacklustre results initially, however further experiments provided excellent turnout. It is rumoured that Gilmore's adopted son, Brett Gilmore, was from one of the experiments from the Noughties Series that produced no results (Number 003).
* Second Series, aka 'the Teens Series' (971 ACA) - 10 Human Foetus experiments. Many more survivors, first use of the 'test tube method' during foetus development. Much greater results at a much faster rate, with subjects being able to successfully lift & move objects weighing up to 410kg with their mind at age 14.
* Third Series, aka 'the Twenties Series' (973 ACA) - 10 Human Foetus experiments. Highest survival rate out of all series, however similar results to the previous series. This gave Gilmore the theory that there were natural limitations to the human abilities. He would do one more test to prove this, and if proven correct he would attempt Celestial Elven test subjects instead.
* Fourth Series, aka 'the Thirty Series' (976 ACA) - 10 Human Foetus experiments. Almost exact same results as the Twenties Series, and was a huge loss of money for Gen II. Despite this, it cemented the ideas that Gilmore had in his mind regarding human psyche limitations.
* Final Series, aka 'the Fourty Series' (978 ACA) - 5 Celestial Elven Foetus experiments. Only one specimen survived until birth, Number 0042, yet produced unimaginable results. However, the Final Series was littered with controversy as it is believed that the only surviving specimen was the technical daughter of Lisse Tencandis, a woman that Gilmore was in an intimate relationship with at the time. Following the termination of the Human Studies Project in 980 ACA, Gilmore promptly cut off all relations with Tencandis, who, following an inquiry between 981 & 983 ACA, reportedly killed herself.
The Human Studies Project was completely unknown to the public for many years even after it was terminated. Gen II hid beneath a vail of medicinal research, and while Gilmore did admit to hiding his true identity by using a Bardonian alias, he never admitted to any form of exploitation of Tencandis during their relationship.
=== Gilmore Administration ===
Outside of the Human Studies Project, Gilmore's leadership of Gen II, known as the Gilmore Administration, was very lacklustre. While some medicinal breakthroughs were made, including a cure to Type-1 Entropomorphia, a fatal disease which was rampant across the mainland following the Malkkengarun Incident in 960 ACA. Gen II headquarters mainly remained in the Palaeontological Centre in Lhûmar, however Gilmore was rarely seen there, as he mainly resided in the government-funded Aurlûnor-Ryzani National Laboratory in Hampo Province, a few miles south of Hloamar. Gen II also had a known shipping port on Site B that was operational from 975 ACA. Following his retirement from the role of Chief Geneticist to focus on senior duties in 983 ACA, he elected Crockett Gideon as his successor, who embarked on another experiment by which they would fuse dinosaur blood with some of the subjects from the Human Studies Project, which resulted in the deaths of much of the Noughties Series. Gilmore also began the Purgatory Project in 987 ACA, by which he would attempt to open a portal to a third dimension by using the powers of the Human Studies Project subjects to power a machine that would carve open this new 'portal to the Middle World' aka 'Purgatory'.
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