Editing James Cutter

===The Etran Harborage===

Marines and Sergeant Forge in particular, deployed to the inner surface of the world, chanced upon the professor, who had managed to escape her captors on her own when their guard was down. Cutter sent a pelican to retrieve her while others stayed behind to keep the area they controlled. Once aboard the ''Spirit of Fire'', Anders met the captain on the observation deck and told him everything she had learned. The Covenant at this world, led by [[Prophet of Regret|one]] of their [[hierarch]]s, was planning to take control of a massive fleet of [[Sojourner-class dreadnought|warships]] of the [[Forerunner|ancient race]] that had built this place. After receiving notification from Forge that his position was locked down, he told him to stand by for his next mission briefing.<ref>'''Halo Wars''', campaign level ''[[Beachhead (Halo Wars level)|Beachhead]]''</ref> Anders believed their best shot at denying the powerful fleet to the [[hierarch]] would be to overload their [[Shaw-Fujikawa translight engine]] and use it to cause a chain reaction in the world's [[Astroengineering|artificial sun]].<ref name="Reactor">'''Halo Wars''', campaign level ''[[Reactor (Halo Wars level)|Reactor]]''</ref> She surmised that they could turn it into a supernova, which would destroy everything around it. Cutter was hesitant to agree to the plan at first, but agreed that it was their best course of action. Though they would lose their ability to traverse slipspace, possibly stranding them in unknown space, or even die in the attempt, Cutter felt the sacrifice necessary to protect humanity. On February 25, the slipspace drive was carefully lowered to the ground, where it was taken control of by Sergeant Forge.[[File:Cutterstar.png|thumb|left|300px|Cutter hangs on as the ''Spirit of Fire'' makes its escape.]] Cutter told him to deliver it safely to a [[Apex Site|particular site]] where the Covenant was in order to use a form of elevator their to launch it into the sun. On this date, Captain Cutter made an entry in his log wherein he noted that the pelicans that had been engaged in ground operations on the outside of the planet had all failed after four or five flights thanks to dust in the atmosphere. After a pelican identified as ''[[Victor 397]]'' was shot down while carrying the slipspace drive, Cutter decided against risking something like that happening again and ordered it to be transported further with the use of elephants. Once it reached a large groundside [[teleporter]] that took the drive to the base of the elevator, Cutter let Forge know that engineers were on the way to rig its core for overload. The plan worked, but the means of exit Cutter had planned to use to escape the [[shield world|planet]] was sealed off. Cutter ordered what ground teams remained to find a way to reopen the exit soon before they all died. As Anders coordinated with the teams on the ground to achieve this goal, Forge, who was riding with the drive up the elevator to set off the detonation manually, contacted Cutter to let him know he estimated they had about thirty minutes to spare. A little less than twenty minutes later, he confirmed he had reached the sun and would detonate the core in ten minutes' time. Cutter wished the faithful sergeant the best of luck and then let him know once they had an exit again and were recalling everyone to the ship. Once everyone was safely aboard, minus Forge, Cutter ordered they escape at the best speed they could. However, the expansion of the artificial star's gravitational field was going to make that difficult. Thinking fast, Captain Cutter  had Serina plot a course around the sun that would use its mass to slingshot them around it and out their exit. She confirmed it could be done and advised Cutter to hold on to something. He took a seat and watched as they rounded the collapsing star, flew through the exit porta, and emerged on the outside of the false planet just as it began to tear itself apart.