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James Cutter

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This article is about the captain of UNSC Spirit of Fire. For other uses of the term "cutter", see Cutter (disambiguation).
James G. Cutter
A render of James Cutter.
Biographical information

Homeworld:

Reach[1][2][3]

Born:

June 12, 2478[1][2][3]

Parents:

Unidentified father

Spouse(s):

Mary Cutter

Children:

Personal details

Species:

Human

Gender:

Male

Height:

185.4 centimeters (6 ft 1.0 in)[2]

Weight:

88 kilograms (195 lb)[2]

Hair color:

White (formerly black)[4]

Eye color:

Blue[4]

Political and military information

Affiliation:

UNSC Navy

Rank:

Captain[1][2][3]

Service number:

01730-58392-JC[1][2][3]

Notable info:

[5]

 

"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]

Biography[edit]

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]