She has never sought counselling or talked much about her time in captivity, but one can only begin to guess at the nightmares she went through during that terrible time. Professor Anders's captivity by the Covenant has made her the longest known POW in the war so far. Some kind of Covenant special forces unit had been deployed to capture Professor Anders, which represented a major security breach. Whatever answers they found, we never discovered. Cleared to pursue by Admiral Cole, we assisted Spartan Team Omega and Spartan Red Team in civilian evacuation efforts, then moved to investigate the ancient ruins that the Covenant had cordoned off with an energy shield.
Sergeant John Forge and Professor Ellen Anders learned that the Covenant had found a star map which led them to Arcadia. Even though we’d reclaimed the planet after five long years, the Covenant were still around looking for something. We were assigned to Admiral Cole’s Third Fleet and deployed to monitor the northern region of Harvest, our most critical agricultural world. Herein lies a complete record of the UNSC Spirit of Fire’s mission, from Harvest, to Arcadia, to… wherever the hell we escaped from just a few days ago. CAPTAIN’S REPORT: James Cutter - March 3rd, 2531
