James Cutter

Captain James Cutter was a Senior Officer in the UNSC Navy. He was the commanding officer of the modified colony ship, the UNSC Spirit of Fire. Cutter is known to have had a wife, Mary Cutter, and a daughter on Reach.

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Before joining the UNSC, Captain Cutter earned respect for standing up to terrorists in the Epsilon Indi system. Over time, he became the captain of the UNSC Spirit of Fire, and is known to walk the ship at night to check on the crew. He is so well respected that coffee houses give him free coffee beans to take with him on long trips.

James Cutter entered the UNSC School of the North Star on September 15th, 2500, where he studied on astro-navigation and political science.

He was then sent to the Officer Candidate School on June 19th, 2504 where he was taught in Command and Navigation.

There he entered naval service as a Lieutenant and junior Navigations Officer on the UNSC Brilliant Shores on November 16th, 2507. He was later transferred to the UNSC Final Summit on January 9th, 2514, where he became the chief Navigation Officer,

He achieved the rank of Commander upon his transfer to the UNSC Glasgow on August 8th, 2519, a post he stayed at until his transfer to the Spirit of Fire on the fifth anniversary of his transfer to the Glasgow. He was given the rank of Captain on arrival.

Before the Harvest campaign, Cutter was offered command of the Destroyer UNSC Prophecy, though he turned it down.

With the outbreak of war with the Covenant, Cutter was handpicked by Admiral Preston Cole to command the Spirit of Fire in her new role as center of repair, supply, and forward deployment operations for Battlegroup D. Cutter participated in the Third Battle of Harvest in 2531.[8] He developed a close relationship with the ship's AI, Serina, but was suspicious as to the presence of Professor Anders, suspecting that there was more to her than met the eye.[9] After making a log on the "five years of hell" that led to the reclamation of the planet[10], Cutter and his ship still remained within the system, Cutter believed that although Harvest had been reclaimed by the UNSC, it was unlikely that the Covenant would simply back down. His belief was vindicated in a sense, considering that Sergeant John Forge alerted Cutter that the Covenant had uncovered something in the planet's northern polar region, with Professor Anders giving further proof of this claim. Cutter thus ordered that Alpha Base be brought online and the site be taken.[11] In the aftermath of the Harvest 'field trip', Cutter's level of trust towards Anders increased, impressed by the bravery she'd demonstrated down on the planet.