James Cutter
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- "Where you see half a crew, Isabel, I see family, courage. And a thousand heroes who swore to fight their way through hell before they'd ever... EVER turn their backs and run. And where you see one old ship, I see home. And that is always worth fighting for!"
- — Captain Cutter to Isabel and the bridge crew of the Spirit of Fire.[6]
Captain James "Jim" Gregory Cutter (service number 01730-58392-JC)[1][2][3] is a commissioned officer in the UNSC Navy who served during the Insurrection and the early years of the Human-Covenant War.[1][2] He captains the UNSC Spirit of Fire, a refitted Phoenix-class colony ship that was attached to Vice Admiral Preston Cole's Third Fleet in 2531.[1][7] Cutter and the Spirit of Fire went missing in 2531 due to circumstances that required the sacrifice of the ship's Shaw-Fujikawa translight engine in order to deny a fleet of Forerunner Sojourner-class dreadnoughts to the Covenant. Cutter and the rest of the crew entered cryostasis and slept for 28 years, awakening in 2559 only after being mysteriously pulled through a portal to the extragalactic Installation 00. There Cutter led the crew of the Spirit of Fire against the Banished, a power-hungry mercenary faction of ex-Covenant that were occupying it.
Cutter had a wife, Mary, with whom he had a daughter on Reach;[8] he also had a mistress on Tribute, with whom he had a son, Daniel Clayton.[9]
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Early career[edit]
- "I was Cutter's XO a couple years before Spirit of Fire went missing. To say I owe the man would be the grossest of understatements."
- — Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood in 2558.[9]
James Gregory Cutter was born on Reach on June 12, 2478.[1][2][3] In the sixth grade, he had a teacher named Mrs. Ash. During one of her spelling tests James spelled the word "rendezvous" correctly, which led to him liking the word ever since. After Cutter finished school, his father pushed him to get a university degree and was furious when James became an ensign at the UN Colony Logistics Office and became even more angered when his son enrolled in flight school. He even went so far as to tell him he was "nothing more than a trucker".[10] James enrolled in the UNSC School of the North Star on September 15, 2500, where he graduated magna cum laude with an emphasis in astronavigation and political science. He was admitted to Officer Candidate School on June 19, 2504, where he received additional training with emphases in command and astronavigation.
On November 16, 2507 he entered naval service as a lieutenant and junior navigation officer aboard the Stick, a diplomatic attaché vessel assigned to the UNSC Brilliant Shores. He was transferred to the