Editing Halo: Spartan Assault/Quotes

[[File:HSA - Quotes.png|thumb|275px|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==
===General===
{{Quote|Remember, Spartan. A lot less ammo will go to waste if you aim with the right stick while firing.|[[Roland]]}}
{{Quote|Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.|Lieutenant [[Jon S. Cole]], quoting [[Wikipedia:Aristotle|Aristotle]]}}
{{Quote|[[Jiralhanae Chieftain|Brute Chieftains]] fight as barbaric as they look, one hit from that hammer and you ended up a puddle of bones and blood.|Private [[Aaron Landvik]]}}
{{Quote|Nothing better for flushing something out of cover than a grenade.|Lieutenant [[Abbi Strand]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Sergeant [[Albert Sessa]]}}
{{Quote|Nearly a third of our battalion was lost on that bridge that day. The enemy artillery was simple too much for us...|Private [[Alexandra Tran]]<ref name="HSA E3w343">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-14IYU9C3A '''YouTube''' - '' Halo Spartan Assault gameplay w/ 343i employee Jay Frechette (E3 2013)'']</ref>}}
{{Quote|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.|Private [[Amber Penzak]]}}
{{Quote|The Forerunner transmission was screwing up everything with a connection to the comm relays. My [[Hornet]] handled like a bug in a thunderstorm.|Private [[Andy Dimotta]]}} 
{{Quote|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.|Lieutenant [[Benjamin Wallace]]}}
{{Quote|Elites can dodge just about anything you shoot their way. Luckily, [[seeker drone]]s don't care much for gymnastics.|Private [[Jamie O'Neal]]}}
{{Quote|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!'|Sergeant [[Tom Winter]]}}
{{Quote|If you could get a hold of a {{Pattern|Anskum|plasma grenade}}, you could stick it to just about anything. Including a [[Grunt]]'s forehead. Boom!|Lieutenant [[Stefan Morris]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x_8tkluobE '''YouTube''' - ''Halo: Spartan Assault for Windows Phone 8 @E3 2013'']</ref>}}
{{Quote|The flight into the airbase was a sight I will never forget... the ground was littered with destroyed {{Pattern|Zurdo|Wraith}}s. What [[Sarah Palmer|she]] did that day was truly amazing.|Private [[Victor Quintana]]}}
{{Quote|Knew a guy who'd get 3 or 4 kills with a single sniper bullet. Asked him the trick. He said, "ask 'em real nice to stand in a straight line.|Private [[John Rosenfeld]]}}
{{Quote|It felt weird to see these Covenant ships as our only lifeline. My whole career, they've meant death. Now they mean salvation.|Private [[Tom Siskino]]}}
{{Quote|The maze of rocks were a perfect ambush location. Likes ghosts we haunted them, slowly gnawing at their moral.|Private [[Nick Rhee]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Private [[Gerry Payne]]}}
{{Quote|Those little yelping Grunts kept throwing themselves at our positions. They kept on coming like water through a busted damn.|Private [[Peter Zhou]]}}
{{Quote|The technology was alien, the time was limited and the resistance was thick. That we managed to do it all in five minutes is a tiny miracle.|Private [[Guy Amjad]]}}
{{Quote|There were these big damn plants, like tentacles. I swear, it was like the planet was fighting us, too.|Lieutenant [[Caitlin de Sauveterre]]}}
{{Quote|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...|Sergeant [[Lindsay Asturias]]<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvP7pJhFztI '''YouTube''' - ''Halo Spartan Assault Walkthrough - Level A-1 (Part 1)'']</ref>}}
{{Quote|Getting those [[Wolverine]]s up there was like dragging elephants through quicksand.|Lieutenant [[Patton Liao]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Lieutenant [[Jim Nikolai]]}}
{{Quote|The horizon was just purple and gold. Thousands of Covenant forces, far as the eye could see.|Lieutenant [[Chandana Pasternack]]<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5wo4ZNsLQ '''YouTube''' - ''Halo: Spartan Assault Launch Party Demo'']</ref>}}
{{Quote|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...|Private [[Samantha Hass]]}}
{{Quote|The entire battle felt like a giant herd of elephants crashing into a giant herd of rhino, it was total chaos...|Private [[Edward Levesque]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Private [[Eric Salucci]]}}
{{Quote|I'm a sniper, right? I'll take a target out before they even know I'm there. But the [[Stealth Elite]]s? They might be even sneakier than me.|Private [[Molly Markozi]]}}
{{Quote|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...|Private [[Roger Alfarsi]]<ref name="YSAG">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epVymGith5A '''YouTube''' - ''Halo Spartan Assault Impressions (inc Gameplay) '']</ref>}}
{{Quote|The Spartans were using [[hologram]] decoys and confusing the hell outta those Grunts. Never seen anything so funny.|Lieutenant [[Elizabeth Kwan]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9lvzTHSbXg '''YouTube''' - ''Halo: Spartan Assault on Surface Pro @E3 2013'']</ref>}}
{{Quote|Those Spartans must have shields, right? I saw a [[Brute]] hit her so hard she shoulda crumpled like tissue paper.|Private [[Harold Amundsen]]<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPpJvbrjQ7I '''YouTube''' - ''Halo: Spartan Assault On Surface RT gameplay'']
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{{Quote|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.|Lieutenant [[Tara Nguyen]]<ref name="HSA E3">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYD81rFPuew '''YouTube''' - ''E3 2013: Halo Spartan Assault'' ]</ref>}}
{{Quote|Having survived the landing, I was stuck on a narrow ledge surrounded by Covenant. Spartan [[Edward Davis|Davis]] helped me cheat death a second time that day.|Private [[Charlie Sultan]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Private [[Christopher Olsen]]}}
{{Quote|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 [[Draetheus system|system]].|Lieutenant [[Sasha Wu]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Captain [[Brad Falkenrath]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Private [[Paul Voclain]]}}
{{Quote|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...|Lieutenant [[Henry Darzi]]}}
{{Quote|Moving across [[X50]]'s surface was darn near impossible. There were so many potholes and ridges, my spine felt like it wanted to snap.|Sergeant [[Ramone Dakota]]}}
{{Quote|Minutes before we had been under siege. Now the Covenant soldiers were fleeing. It was still a long way from victory.|Lieutenant [[Han Quigley]]}}
{{Quote|We had fought so hard for those bridges. Now, we couldn't leave them behind us fast enough.|Corporal [[Craig Prinz]]}}
{{Quote|We saw Spartan Palmer enter the lion's den from the ship's bridge. Before we knew it, all hell broke lose...|Private [[Kelly Tremblay]]}}
{{Quote|Saw a Spartan with an [[Overshield]] walk through crossfire that would have dismantled a tank.|Private [[Dave Moriarty]]}}
{{Quote|Covenant soldiers started swarming the landing zone the moment they realized what we were up to. We'd poked the hornets' nest.|Private [[Matt Salamanca]]}}
{{Quote|[[Plasma pistol]]s weren't the best, but if you charged the shot, you might get lucky and take out a shield in a single shot.|Private [[Rob Petersen]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Captain [[Nada Rand]]}}
{{Quote|Incendiary grenades were great. Great for area of denial. Great for crispy Covenant. Great for starting a fire on a cold night...|Sergeant [[Mary Russo]]}}
{{Quote|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.|Commander [[Richard Moe]]}}

===Operation F: Hydra===
{{Quote|Our artillery came down on them like molten rain, and it was still barely enough to get the job done.|Major [[Geraldine McNally]]}}
{{Quote|30 years of war taught us using their own energy weapons against them would fry Elites' shields in seconds.|Private [[Cole Bousaid]]}}
{{Quote|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 Grace (character)|Kevin "The Ace" Grace]]}}
{{Quote|You ever see a Spartan at full sprint? It's unreal. They're here -- then they're there, faster than anything.|Lieutenant [[Scott Pham]]}}
{{Quote|Everyone was reporting in lost, but Spartan Palmer always knew exactly where to go.|Private [[Monica Ernst]]}}

===Flood Missions===
{{Quote|When facing the [[Flood]], your standard-issue [[MA5 series|assault rifle]] is pretty much the best all-purpose weapon you can carry.|Spartan [[Bethany Kossup]]}}
{{Quote|[[M6/Z magnum|Machine pistols]] are sloppy, but when I need to fight Flood [[Pod infector|Infection form]]s, sloppy's the best thing on the menu.|Private [[Lewis Allen]], [[1st Marine Division]], [[UNSC Marines]]}}
{{Quote|Standing inside or behind a Repel barrier is like having your own little private safety zone.|Private First Class [[Nozomi Li]], [[15th Combat Engineer Battalion]], UNSC Marines}}
{{Quote|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.|Sergeant [[Harry Benton]], [[105th Mobile Infantry]], [[UNSC Army]]}}
{{Quote|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}}
{{Quote|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.|Sergeant [[Jackson Seaver]], [[82nd Infantry Regiment]], UNSC Army}}
{{Quote|[[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|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}}
{{Quote|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}}
{{Quote|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.|Lieutenant [[Brendan Hale]], [[1st Infantry Division]], UNSC Army}}
{{Quote|Any jarhead can toss a grenade; it is an art to use the [[M319 grenade launcher|Grenade launcher]]'s delayed explosions to create maximum destruction.|Corporal [[Jennifer Regan]], [[5th Mechanized Infantry]], UNSC Marines}}
{{Quote|The beauty of the [[M2705 regeneration field|Regeneration Field]] is that its field of influence can extend to multiple operatives. It takes "the buddy system" to a whole new level.|Doctor [[Sheila Nerrivik]], special attaché to [[SPECWARCOM]], [[UNSC]] [[Unified Ground Command]]}}
{{Quote|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 Sergeant [[Lillian Bonelli|Lillian "Banshee" Bonelli]], [[22nd Infantry Division]], UNSC Army}}
{{Quote|That Flood's arm was like a slingshot. There were grenades raining everywhere.|Private [[Hendal Baranshi]], [[10th Reconnaissance Division]], UNSC Marines}}
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