The Tyche-class Cutter is a specialised naval vessel used by the UNSC for close in patrol of planetary bodies and space stations in friendly space. The Tyche has a variety of missions, such as disaster relief, anti-piracy, anti-terrorism, vessel interception and inspection and distress response. The ship is designed to have extremely high endurance, being capable of travelling far from known ports to respond to distress signals, preforming in-atmosphere relief missions and going toe to toe with pirate or Insurrectionist combat vessels. To this end, it is extremely fast and possesses surprisingly heavy fire-power, including numerous point defences, anti-ship cannons and LASERs, Archer missiles and a single M5 Storm Naval Gun System, capable of causing heavy damage to enemy vessels, and cata