Operation Hail Storm Quotes

“His normal pattern of sleeping was problematic at best. He would fall asleep for an hour and then be jarred awake for absolutely no reason. Falling back asleep wasn’t a problem. All he had to do was read a book or watch TV and he would eventually drift off. But as soon as the next hour of REM clicked by, bang, back awake again. The pattern would repeat and repeat and repeat again until he was tired of the farce and got up and went on with another day of living.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“She had no numbers stored on her phone. In her line of work, her phone could be liberated from her at any time. The first lesson in Spy School 101 was to keep your phone clean. No numbers. No history. Nothing that could provide an adversary information if her phone was taken from her.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“What type of food?" "What do you mean what type?" "I mean Mexican, Italian, French, American?" "I wasn't aware that American was a type of food," Kara said. "Sure it is. Hamburgers, fried chicken, hot dogs, apple pie; I don't know any food more American than that.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“Hail said, "We do science. Not science fiction.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“The conference room on the Nucleus could have been mistaken for any high-tech super-duper fortune five-hundred boardroom, if it wasn't for the two distinct iron portholes welded into the shiny white wall.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“The term micro-hub didn't have much to do with the size of the drones. It was nomenclature Hail's crew used to refer to a drone's heritage. The main drone was Foghat, which dropped off the hub called Led Zeppelin or its mini-drone. The next group of hubs that were released by Led Zeppelin was referred to as micro-hubs. If those hubs parented more hubs, then those would be called nano-hubs and so on until pico has been used. Hail's drone laboratories had never nested drones deeper than pico, so there was no need for any further classification. The inventors of the metric system in 18th century France, had little need for any terminology smaller than micro, because they didn't have instruments fine enough to measure more minute increments. But in later years, pico, femto, atto, zepto and yocto metric increments had been established in case Hail's team ever needed them.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“As the tractor pushed the AgustaWestland onto the elevator pad, Hail began to go through a pre-flight checklist. He had never actually flown AgustaWestaland before, but he had over forty hours of simulations time with this model, and these days the simulator was just as good as the real thing. Maybe even better. The simulator offered a dozen different flight scenarios which included many combinations of adverse weather conditions.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“Something was on him and he couldn't shake it. He couldn't even see it. It was a new weapon of some sort and his last regret on this earth was he wouldn't live long enough to sell it to any of his customers.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“Drones that dropped drones that released drones that then silently killed people.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm