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==''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''== | ==''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''== | ||
===Chapter 1=== | |||
*"We must be near Eridanus." Halsey's first words to Keyes after exiting her cryotube. | *"We must be near Eridanus." Halsey's first words to Keyes after exiting her cryotube. | ||
*"I’m fine, Lieutenant. Get cleaned up and dressed. Hurry. We have important work to do.” - After Keyes her help in getting dressed and to work. | *"I’m fine, Lieutenant. Get cleaned up and dressed. Hurry. We have important work to do.” - After Keyes her help in getting dressed and to work. | ||
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*“Indeed, Lieutenant, ever since we left Earth’s gravity, well, we’ve been fighting one another for every cubic centimeter of vacuum—from Mars to the Jovian Moons to the Hydra System Massacres and on to the hundred brushfire wars in the Outer Colonies. It has always been on the brink of falling apart. That’s why we’re here.” | *“Indeed, Lieutenant, ever since we left Earth’s gravity, well, we’ve been fighting one another for every cubic centimeter of vacuum—from Mars to the Jovian Moons to the Hydra System Massacres and on to the hundred brushfire wars in the Outer Colonies. It has always been on the brink of falling apart. That’s why we’re here.” | ||
*“This child could be more useful to the UNSC than a fleet of destroyers, a thousand Junior Grade Lieutenants—or even me . In the end, the child may be the only thing that makes any difference.” - When Keyes asks what difference could the one child make. | *“This child could be more useful to the UNSC than a fleet of destroyers, a thousand Junior Grade Lieutenants—or even me . In the end, the child may be the only thing that makes any difference.” - When Keyes asks what difference could the one child make. | ||
===Chapter 2=== | |||
*“It’s nice here. This colony doesn’t know how good they’ve got it. Rural lifestyle. No pollution. No crowding. Climate-controlled weather.” - Halsey regarding [[Eridanus II]]. | *“It’s nice here. This colony doesn’t know how good they’ve got it. Rural lifestyle. No pollution. No crowding. Climate-controlled weather.” - Halsey regarding [[Eridanus II]]. | ||
*"Relax. We’re supposed to be parents inspecting the school for our little girl." - To Keyes, who is uncomfortable in a civilian suit. | *"Relax. We’re supposed to be parents inspecting the school for our little girl." - To Keyes, who is uncomfortable in a civilian suit. | ||
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*“Of course not. But we have one hundred and fifty test subjects to consider, and facilities and funding for only half that number. It’s a simple mathematical elimination, Lieutenant. That child was one of the lucky ones—either that or he is extraordinarily fast. Either way, he’s in.” - When Keyes asks if she believes in luck | *“Of course not. But we have one hundred and fifty test subjects to consider, and facilities and funding for only half that number. It’s a simple mathematical elimination, Lieutenant. That child was one of the lucky ones—either that or he is extraordinarily fast. Either way, he’s in.” - When Keyes asks if she believes in luck | ||
*“I hope that continues, Lieutenant. For your sake, I hope you never understand what we’re doing.” | *“I hope that continues, Lieutenant. For your sake, I hope you never understand what we’re doing.” | ||
===Chapter 3=== | |||
*Dr. Halsey knew what she had to do. Her duty. It was for the greater good. All humanity would be served... even if a tiny handful of them had to suffer for it. Still, when she turned inward and faced her complicity in this—she was revolted by what she saw. | |||
*“I’m forgoing your recommendations, Déjà. I’m going to tell them the truth.” - When Déjà's psychological evaluations tell Halsey that it'd be better to lie to the children why they've been taken. | |||
*“So do lies. Any story fabricated to motivate the children—claiming their parents were taken and killed by pirates, or by a plague that devastated their planet—if they learned the truth | |||
later, they would turn against us.” - When Déjà tells Halsey that the truth has risks. | |||
*“A memory loss that may leak into other parts of the brain. No, this will be dangerous enough for them even with intact minds.” - When Déjà suggests wiping the children's memories of their parents. | |||
*“They’ll adapt. Or they won’t, and they will be untrainable and unsuitable for the project. Either way I just want to get this over with.” | |||
*“As per Naval Code 45812, you are hereby conscripted into the UNSC Special Project, codenamed SPARTAN II. You have been called upon to serve. You will be trained . . . and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of Earth and all her colonies. This will be hard to understand, but you cannot return to your parents. This place will become your home. Your fellow trainees will be your family now. The training will be difficult. There will be a great deal of hardship on the road ahead, but I know you will all make it. Rest now. We begin tomorrow.” | |||
*“Keep them busy tomorrow. Keep them from thinking about what we’ve just done to them.” - To Mendez and Déjà. | |||
===Chapter 5=== | |||
*“Do? I think that’s obvious, Chief. Make him a Squad Leader.” - To Mendez, after hearing John's testimony about why he ordered his Spartans to attack the men guarding the Pelican. | |||
===Chapter 6=== | |||
*“I want that transmission decoded now.” - Referring to the encrypted messaged sent to her by Admiral [[Ysionris Jeromi]]. | |||
*“On my glasses, please, Déjà.” - Halsey's glasses scan her retinas to allow her access to classified documents. | |||
*She winced at the veiled rebuke in the Admiral’s communiqué. He had never approved of her decision to work with the Office of Naval Intelligence, and made his disappointment with his star pupil evident every time she visited ''Hopeful''. It was hard enough to justify the morality of the course she was about to embark upon. Jeromi’s disapproval only made her decision more difficult. | |||
*“I have doubts, Déjà. I thought the reasons so compelling when we first started project SPARTAN. Now? I . . . I just don’t know.” - After seeing Jeromi's calculations for the [[SPARTAN--II augmentation procedures|augmentation surgery]]'s risks of failure. | |||
*“Only if they survive to fulfill that mission. We should delay the procedures. More research needs to be done. We could use the time to work on MJOLNIR. We need time to—” - After Déjà reminds her of the predicted climaxing of the [[Insurrection]]. | |||
*“I hate this. And sometimes, Déjà, I hate you, too.” - After Déjà warns that ONI might replace Halsey with someone with fewer moral qualms. | |||
*“I’ll tell you how to win, John. You have to survive.” - To John during his surgery, as he asks how to pass this "mission". | |||
===Chapter 8=== | |||
*“[[First Battle of Harvest|Our situation has changed]]. Where are my Spartans? They are not in their barracks, nor on any of the ranges.” | |||
*“Maybe you should explain that statement, Chief.” - When Mendex tells her the Spartans have had to train elsewhere. | |||
*“I presume you do not have my Spartans taking inventory today, Chief?” - When Mendez tells her they're now in an abandoned titanium mine. | |||
*“I’m not sure I see the connection between this place, my Spartans, and the exoskeleton projects, but I’ll play along a bit further. Yes, I know all about the Mark I prototypes. We had to scrap the concept and redesign battle armor from the ground up for the MJOLNIR project. The Mark Is consumed enormous energy. Either they had to be plugged into a generator or use inefficient broadcast power—neither option is practical on a battlefield. They used the units that weren’t scrapped as dock loaders to move heavy equipment. Or might they have been dumped in a place like this?” - When Mendez asks her if she knows about the MJOLNIR Mark I. | |||
*“You haven’t put ''my'' Spartans in some of those antiques?” | |||
*“Then they are faster and stronger than we anticipated?” - After Mendez tells her three trainers were accidentally killed by the Spartans. | |||
*“Capture the flag? Past all that heavy armor?” - When witnessing their new training field. | |||
*“Where are the Spartans?” | |||
*“He’s at point blank range! Even stun rounds can kill at that distance!” - When seeing John attack one of the Mark Is. | |||
*“Show me that again. You recorded all that, didn’t you?” | |||
*“They should not be performing so well. There must be unexplained synergistic effects brought on by the combined modifications. What are their reaction times?” - After Mendez tells her the Spartans run at an average of 55 mph. | |||
*“Any physiological or mental instabilities?” | |||
*“They might as well have been killed. But can the Spartans kill, Chief? Kill on purpose? Are they ready for real combat?” - Regarding the trainers' inability to get out of their armor. | |||
*“Something has happened, Chief. [[Covenant|Something ONI and the Admiralty never expected]]. The brass wants to deploy the Spartans. They want to test them in a real | |||
combat mission.” | |||
*“Your rumors are out-of-date, Chief. There’s no more fighting at Harvest. There ''is'' no more Harvest.” - When Mendez says he's heard rumors of the fighting at Harvest. | |||
*“Get them out of this hole. I want them ready to muster at 0400. We have a briefing at 0600 tomorrow aboard the ''Pioneer''. We’re taking them on a mission ONI has been saving for the right crew and the right time. This is it. | |||
*“Tomorrow we see if all the pain they’ve been through has been worth it.” | |||
==''[[Halo: First Strike]]''== | ==''[[Halo: First Strike]]''== | ||