Editing Li-008

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|birth=[[2511]]
|death=[[2552]] (exact date unknown due to Slipspace time anomaly)
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'''Petty Officer Second Class Li-008''' was a [[SPARTAN-II]] and an [[E.V.A.]] (Extravehicular Activity) specialist. He was one of the best martial artists of the SPARTAN-II Program and was also efficient in space.

==Biography==
===Early Life===
In [[2517]], Li was abducted at the age of six, when [[Dr. Catherine Halsey]] singled him out as a perfect genetic match for the SPARTAN-II Program. He was replaced with a [[Flash-Cloning|flash clone]] who later died because of the defects that are a by-product of the flash cloning process. He was then taken to [[Reach]], where he was trained with the rest of the SPARTAN-II candidates by the AI&nbsp;[[Déjà]] and [[Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez]].

Li-008 was one of the SPARTAN-II's best zero-gravity combat specialists. He had trained extensively with microgravity equipment and martial arts at the [[UNSC]]'s extreme-conditions facility on the [[Chiron]] space station in orbit around [[Mars]]. It was also said that he was as much at home in free fall as the rest of them were on solid ground.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 219</ref>

Little is known about Li-008's personality, only that he is a disciplined and skilled martial arts specialist.

===[[Reach]]===
In [[2552]], he was assigned to the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} like most of the remaining Spartans, and was present at the [[Battle of Reach]]. During the battle, his team deployed to Reach to defend the [[Orbital Defense Generator]]s but their [[D77-TC|Pelican]] dropship, [[Bravo 001]], was shot down by enemy fire. Li-008 regrouped with the rest of the Spartans, and was assigned to [["Team Gamma"]] by [[Frederic-104]], along with [[Anton-044]] and [[Grace-093]]. Their objective was to evacuate [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and his men.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 24</ref> The group was successful in rescuing Vice Admiral Whitcomb, but Frederic-104 ordered them to stay in hiding because their fall back point was crawling with [[Covenant]] forces.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 111-112</ref>

Anton-044, Grace-093, Li-008, and Vice Admiral Whitcomb were forced to retreat to [[Camp Independence]] for three weeks, where they attacked the enemy repeatedly with guerrilla tactics. They also broadcast the ''[[Oly Oly Oxen Free]]'' code on the [[COM|UNSC E-Band]] until the signal was picked up by [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]] and [[John-117]] aboard the captured Covenant [[Reverence-class cruiser|''Reverance''-class cruiser]] ''[[Ascendant Justice]]''.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 156</ref> Shortly thereafter, John-117 took a team consisting of [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery J. Johnson]], ODST [[Corporal (UNSC)|Corporal]] [[Locklear]], ONI [[Lieutenant (UNSC)|Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]], and [[Petty Officer Second Class]] Pilot [[Sheila Polaski]] in a [[Spirit]] dropship to rescue them. On Whitcomb's order, Li-008 then joined the team to rescue Dr. Catherine Halsey and the remaining SPARTAN-II's who were trapped in an underground [[Forerunner]] complex.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 173</ref> 

The group then followed the Covenant to the subterranean remains of [[CASTLE Base]].<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 182</ref> Vice Admiral Whitcomb ordered Li-008 to stay behind on the dropship and protect [[Polaski]] and provide covering fire in case they were ambushed by enemy forces, while the rest of the group saved Frederic-104's team and Dr. Catherine Halsey from a massive Covenant strike force.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 186</ref> All of them returned to the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]/[[Gettysburg]]'' and tried to initiate a [[Slipspace]] jump.

===Death===
While the [[Forerunner Crystal]] artifact was in possession of the crew, the part of Slipspace that they were traveling through was altered, creating an anomalous Slipspace bubble in which the ''Ascendant Justice'' and all Covenant ships pursuing it became trapped.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 211</ref> During the ensuing battle, some of the surviving [[Elite]] crew members of the ship sabotaged part of the main power conduit of the ship, forcing Li-008, John-117, Frederic-104, Anton-044, Grace-093, and [[William-043]] to go out onto the outer-hull of the ship and repair the conduit.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 218</ref> 

While they were repairing the conduit, hot [[plasma]] flew overhead and revealed that there were in fact some camouflaged Elites approaching their position. They continued repairing the conduit, but a stray plasma bolt from an enemy ship struck the piggybacked ship, destroying the dropship during the repair. Afterward, Li-008, who had continued firing at the approaching Elites while the plasma bolt approached, Anton-044 and Polaski disappeared in a bright light. Only John-117, Frederic-104, William-043, and Grace-093 were confirmed to have survived.<ref>''[[First Strike]]'', page 223</ref> Li was listed as MIA by John-117 when he had recovered on the UNSC ship ''Gettysburg'' Li-008 was presumably struck by bolts of plasma as he tried to fight them off.

==Trivia==
* Interestingly even though he was the Spartans' Zero-G expert, John-117 did not pick him for the mission to retrieve the nav data at the [[Battle of Reach]]. Instead he went groundside to protect the Orbital Defense Generators. 
* John-117 commented that he was the only Spartan who was as comfortable in zero-G as on ground.
* He spent almost everyday on [[Reach]] training in zero-G environments.
* It is quite ironic how he was the Zero-G expert, but he died during what could be considered a "space" battle.

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