Li-008

Li
Biographical information
Date of birth:	c. 2511
Date of death:	September 2552 (exact date unknown due to temporal anomaly)
Gender:	Male
Political and military information
Spartan tag:	008
Rank:	At least petty officer second class

Li-008 was a Spartan-II supersoldier. He was a zero-gravity combat specialist and one of the Spartans' best martial artists.

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 criteria set forth by the SPARTAN-II program. He was replaced with a flash clone who later died from defects in the cloning process. He was then taken to Reach, where he was trained with the rest of the Spartan-II candidates by the AI Déjà and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez.

Li-008 was one of the Spartans'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 Test Station in orbit around Mars. John-117 felt that Li was as much at home in free fall as the rest of the Spartans were on solid ground.

Reach

In August 2552, Li was assigned to the UNSC Pillar of Autumn along with most of the remaining Spartan-IIs, and was present at the Fall of Reach. On August 30, Li was among 22 Spartans assigned to Red Team led by Fred-104. Red Team was deployed groundside to defend the orbital defense generators but their 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, along with Anton-044 and Grace-093. Their objective was to evacuate Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb. The group was successful in rescuing Vice Admiral Whitcomb, but Fred-104 ordered everyone to stay in hiding because their fallback point had been overrun by Covenant forces.

Li, Anton, Grace, 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 UNSC E-Band until the signal was picked up by Cortana and John-117 aboard the captured Covenant carrier Ascendant Justice. Shortly thereafter, John-117 took a team of survivors from the Battle of Installation 04 in a Spirit dropship to rescue them. On Whitcomb's order, Li then joined the team to rescue Dr. Catherine Halsey and the remaining Spartan-IIs who were trapped in an underground Forerunner complex.

The group then followed the Covenant to the subterranean remains of CASTLE Base. Vice Admiral Whitcomb ordered Li-008 to stay behind on the dropship and protect pilot Shiela Polaski and to provide covering fire in case they were ambushed by enemy forces. Meanwhile, the rest of the group saved Fred-104's team, Dr. Halsey, and a Forerunner slipspace crystal from an enormous Covenant strike force. All of them returned to the Ascendant Justice (which had been docked with the frigate Template:UNSCship) and tried to initiate a slipspace jump.

Death

The crystal artifact warped local slipspace, creating a space-time bubble in which Ascendant Justice and all pursuing Covenant ships became trapped. During the ensuing battle, some of Ascendant Justice's surviving crew sabotaged part of the ship's main power conduit, forcing Li, John, Fred, Anton, Grace, and Will-043 to go out onto the outer hull of the ship and repair the conduit.

While they were repairing the conduit, a stray plasma bolt from an enemy ship moved toward the piggybacked vessels. Li opened fire a group of approaching Sangheili whose position had been revealed by the light emitted by the bolt. The bolt then struck Ascendant Justice, causing Li, Anton, and Polaski to disappear in a bright light. John later listed Li and Anton as missing in action in accordance with ONI Directive 930.

List of appearances

• Halo: First Strike (First appearance)
• Halo: Reach
  • Dr. Halsey's personal journal (Mentioned only)