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