Halo: Spartan Assault/Quotes

An example of a pre-mission loading screen quote.

This is a list of quotes shown in the pre-mission loading screens of Halo: Spartan Assault, some acting as gameplay tips while others provide backstory for the events of the game.

Pre-game quotes

Tutorial

Mission	Quote	Quotee
Tutorial	The blue haze of the training rooms would become our memory of home. We spent so many hours in there.	Pvt. Errol Sung
	Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.	Lt. Jon S. Cole
	I could smell the Diesel when driving that Scorpion. How they made a simulation feel so real is still beyond me.	Pvt. Siwam Eira

General

The following quotes may be randomly displayed prior to one of the main campaign levels in Spartan Assault.

Quote	Quotee
I got to use the Spartan Laser once. Heh. I bet there ain't a thing in the galaxy that it wouldn't cut right through.	Pvt. Christopher Olsen
Knew a guy who'd get three or four kills with a single sniper bullet. Asked him the trick. He said, "Ask 'em real nice to stand in a straight line."	Pvt. John Rosenfeld
Some days a bullet or a ball of hot plasma just isn't enough. Sometimes you just gotta beat a target to death with the butt of your gun.	Capt. Nada Rand
You ever see a Spartan at full sprint? It's unreal. They're here -- then they're there, faster than anything.	Lt. Scott Pham
The only way we could stop those suicide grunts was through sustained fire... slowing them down and hoping you were far enough away from the ensuring blast...	Pvt. Samantha Hass
I panicked. All I had was a plasma pistol and a prayer. Charged my shot and hit the Wraith. Could hardly believe it when the damn thing powered down.	Lt. Joseph Samara
I still have nightmares about the Stealth Elites... they would come out of nowhere. You had to look very, very closely; you could see the air move just before they jump you. But then it was usually already too late...	Pvt. Roger Alfarsi
Brute Chieftains fight as barbaric as they look, one hit from that hammer and you ended up a puddle of bones and blood.	Pvt. Aaron Landvik
Plasma pistols weren't the best, but if you charged the shot, you might get lucky and take out a shield in a single shot.	Pvt. Rob Petersen
Nothing better for flushing something out of cover than a grenade.	Lt. Abbi Strand
Elites can dodge just about anything you shoot their way. Luckily, seeker drones don't care much for gymnastics.	Pvt. Jamie O'Neal
Killing Elites is like peeling an onion. You blast through the shields, then the armor, then the skin and bone. Alright... maybe not exactly like peeling an onion...	Sgt. Lindsay Asturias
Those Spartans must have shields, right? I saw a Brute hit her so hard she shoulda crumpled like tissue paper.	Pvt. Harold Amundsen
The suicide Grunts... Good Lord... Your only hope against those things was a well-timed MJOLNIR overload. Stop 'em and pop 'em at range.	Kevin "The Ace" Grace
Spartan Palmer's drop-shield gave us a chance to catch our breath and reload. Don't know what we'd have done without it.	Capt. Brad Falkenrath
Incendiary grenades were great. Great for area of denial. Great for crispy Covenant. Great for starting a fire on a cold night...	Sgt. Mary Russo
Some people? They get all melancholic when they see all the dead bodies. Me? I see free ammunition, just waitin' to be picked up.	Lt. Mark El-Hashem
The Spartans were using hologram decoys and confusing the hell outta those Grunts. Never seen anything so funny.	Lt. Elizabeth Kwan
30 years of war taught us using their own energy weapons against them would fry Elites' shields in seconds.	Pvt. Cole Bousaid
Saw those Spartans use the Elite's tricks against 'em. Turn on the active camouflage, get all invisible, and stab them right between the ribs.	Pvt. Eric Salucci
If you could get a hold of a plasma grenade, you could stick it to just about anything. Including a Grunt's forehead. Boom!	Lt. Stefan Morris
Saw a Spartan with an Overshield walk through crossfire that would have dismantled a tank.	Cpl. Dave Moriarty
Rifle's a security blanket as much as it is a weapon. Knowing you can pull the trigger and it'll make a loud noise is comforting. But if you want results? You use a rocket launcher.	Lt. Jim Nikolai
Bullets never did much good against shields on Elites or Jackals. Too bad we weren't nearly as well armored.	Pvt. Lawrence Castro

Operation: Umbra

The following quotes are displayed in the missions for Operation A: Umbra.

Mission	Quote	Quotee
A-1: Assault on CF-32 (Original)	Marines called them Spirits because they were death reincarnate. They'd come out of nowhere, without a word, and just start dropping Covies in our front yard.	Lt. Tara Nguyen
A-1: Assault on CF-32 (Xbox)	Remember, Spartan. A lot less ammo will go to waste if you aim with the right stick while firing.	Roland
A-2: The Mirror Mantle Counter-Assault	Our sergeant had been a tracker. He led us through those ice ravines, like we were on a hiking trip. Kept saying. 'Just a little further!'	Sgt. Tom Winter
A-3: Reinforcement of the Perch	Getting those Wolverines up there was like dragging elephants through quicksand.	Lt. Patton Liao
A-4: Live to Fight	The flight into the airbase was a sight I will never forget... the ground was littered with destroyed Wraiths. What she did that day was truly amazing.	Pvt. Victor Quintana
A-5: The Last Stand	I lost two of my best friends that day. Woulda lost a whole lot more getting off that planet if it weren't for Spartan Palmer.	Pvt. Gerry Payne

Operation: Tempered Shield

The following quotes are displayed in the missions for Operation B: Tempered Shield.

Mission	Quote	Quotee
B-1: The Siege of Faraday	The horizon was just purple and gold. Thousands of Covenant forces, far as the eye could see.	Lt. Chandana Pasternack
B-2: Reactor Field Relief	Those little yelping Grunts kept throwing themselves at our positions. They kept on coming like water through a busted damn.	Pvt. Peter Zhou
B-3: Hunt for the Sangheili Command	There were these big damn plants, like tentacles. I swear, it was like the planet was fighting us, too.	Lt. Caitlin de Sauveterre
B-4: Battle for the Epsilon Expanse	Nearly a third of our battalion was lost on that bridge that day. The enemy artillery was simply too much for us...	Pvt. Alexandra Tran
B-5: Battle at Red Slate	The entire battle felt like a giant herd of elephants crashing into a giant herd of rhino, it was total chaos...	Pvt. Edward Levesque

Operation: Monolith

The following quotes are displayed in the missions for Operation C: Monolith.

Mission	Quote	Quotee
C-1: Descend from the Perch	Having survived the landing, I was stuck on a narrow ledge surrounded by Covenant. Spartan Davis helped me cheat death a second time that day.	Pvt. Charlie Sultan
C-2: Spirit Graveyard Stand-Off	Our vector was displayed by two klicks west. We knew something was wrong when our sensors displayed frantic Covenant activity in our direct landing zone.	Lt. Benjamin Wallace
C-3: Assault on the Supply Lines	The maze of rocks were a perfect ambush location. Likes ghosts we haunted them, slowly gnawing at their morale.	Pvt. Nick Rhee
C-4: Infiltration of the Covenant Perimeter	I'm a sniper, right? I'll take a target out before they even know I'm there. But the Stealth Elites? They might be even sneakier than me.	Pvt. Molly Markozi
C-5: Superstructure Stand-Off	The technology was alien, the time was limited and the resistance was thick. That we managed to do it all in 5 minutes is a tiny miracle.	Pvt. Guy Amjad

Operation: Captured Chance

The following quotes are displayed in the missions for Operation D: Captured Chance.

Mission	Quote	Quotee
D-1: Escape from the Southern Fields	Minutes before we had been under siege. Now the Covenant soldiers were fleeing. It was still a long way from victory.	Lt. Han Quigley
D-2: Liberation of Faraday	The colony was as broken as our morale, but we had to fight on. We knew the Spartans wouldn't leave us with our backs against the wall.	Sgt. Albert Sessa
D-3: Assault on the Covenant Landing Zones	We had fought so hard for those bridges. Now, we couldn't leave them behind us fast enough.	Cpl. Craig Prinz
D-4: Escape from Faraday	It felt weird to see these Covenant ships as our only lifeline. My whole career, they've meant death. Now they mean salvation.	Pvt. Tom Siskino
D-5: Defense of the Enemies' Airbase	We had needed a victory before, but this one was different. This wasn't just defeat we were looking at, it was the death of every human being in the system.	Lt. Sasha Wu

Operation: Frostbite

The following quotes are displayed in the missions for Operation E: Frostbite.

Mission	Quote	Quotee
E-1: Hunt for the Phantom	The dense trees didn't make it easy. Luckily, they hid us from the Covenant patrols. Quietly following them, we found our objective in mere hours.	Pvt. Paul Voclain
E-2: The Scorching of the Thicket	Covenant soldiers started swarming the landing zone the moment they realized what we were up to. We'd poked the hornets' nest.	Pvt. Matt Salamanca
E-3: Infiltration of the Cult Leader's Base	We saw Spartan Palmer enter the lion's den from the ship's bridge. Before we knew it, all hell broke lose...	Pvt. Kelly Tremblay
E-4: Hunt for the Cult Leader	Spartan Palmer told us to stay with the Phantom at all costs, as it was the only way off the planet. We heard the fighting, but we didn't want to know what was going on out there...	Lt. Henry Darzi
E-5: Battle for the Moon	What happened between Commander Palmer and Merg Vol that day remains a mystery. We were just overjoyed when we saw her coming back to the Phantom; the realization that that was it. It was done.	Pvt. Amber Penzak

Operation: Hydra

The following quotes are displayed in the missions for Operation F: Hydra.

Mission	Quote	Quotee
F-1: Battle at the Arid Sea	Our artillery came down on them like molten rain, and it was still barely enough to get the job done.	Major Geraldine McNally
F-2: Breach of the Bulwark	Growin' up, we were taught that a grizzly would eat ya alive if you gave 'em a chance. The Covies had to learn that lesson the hard way.	Cdr. Richard Moe
F-3: Superstructure Assault	Moving across X50's surface was darn near impossible. There were so many potholes and ridges, my spine felt like it wanted to snap.	Sgt. Ramone Dakota
F-4: Infiltration of the Cistern	Everyone was reporting in lost, but Spartan Palmer always knew exactly where to go.	Pvt. Monica Ernst
F-5: The Source	The Forerunner transmission was screwing up everything with a connection to the comm relays. My Hornet handled like a bug in a thunderstorm.	Pvt. Andy Dimotta

Flood Missions

In addition to the quotes from Operation Hydra, the following quotes are displayed in the Flood co-operative levels.

Quote	Quotee
When facing the Flood, your standard-issue assault rifle is pretty much the best all-purpose weapon you can carry.	Spartan Bethany Kossup
Machine pistols are sloppy, but when I need to fight Flood Infection forms, sloppy's the best thing on the menu.	Private Lewis Allen, 1st Marine Division, UNSC Marines
Standing inside or behind a Repel barrier is like having your own little private safety zone.	Private 1st Class Nozomi Li, 15th Combat Engineer Battalion, UNSC Marines
Empty a three-burst of a Battle Rifle into a Combat Form's head and down it goes - period. The hardest part is keeping the gun steady.	Sgt. Harry Benton, 105th Mobile Infantry, UNSC Army
Knowing that monster firing a Battle Rifle at you used to be Kevin from 2nd Platoon is just creepy. That could be me.	Specialist Archibald Berger, 6th Airborne Division, UNSC Army
Forerunner turrets turn your partner into a one-man heavy weapons squad, but make sure to find the charging plate to get the most bang for your buck.	Sgt. Jackson Seaver, 82nd Infantry Regiment, UNSC Army
MJOLNIR armor can easily withstand the impact of a single Explosion Form, but where there's one, there are usually hundreds.	Captain Ekene Dyinlola, NAVSPECWAR, UNSC Marines
The whole Teleport tech just seems like magic, man. I can get right back to my buddy when we get separated and it even works through doors... magic.	Corporal Alesandro Aceves, 36th Light Armored Reconnaissance, UNSC Marines
If an Infection Form jumps you, there'd better be someone around to shoot or punch it off. We're not talking about catching a cold here.	Lt. Brendan Hale, 1st Infantry Division, UNSC Army
Any jarhead can toss a grenade; it is an art to use the Grenade launcher's delayed explosions to create maximum destruction.	Corporal Jennifer Regan, 5th Mechanized Infantry, UNSC Marines
The beauty of the Regeneration Field is that its field of influence can extend to multiple operatives. It takes 'the buddy system' to a whole new level.	Dr. Sheila Nerrivik, special attache to SPECWARCOM, UNSC Unified Ground Command
The Shotgun tears through walking and crawling Flood alike. When you are up that close, you can deliver a shotgun blast with a smile.	Staff Sgt. Lillian "Banshee" Bonelli, 22nd Infantry Division, UNSC Army
That Flood's arm was like a slingshot. There were grenades raining everywhere.	Private Hendal Baranshi, 10th Reconnaissance Division, UNSC Marines
Turns out the Overshield also prevents Infection Forms from infecting a victim... assuming they haven't already been infected.	Dr. William Ehreth, Fleet Medical Command, UNSC Navy

Production notes

• Lieutenant Jon S. Cole quotes Aristotle in his quote.
• Kevin "The Ace" Grace is named after 343 Industries employee Kevin Grace.