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'''Petty Officer Li-008''' was a [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] supersoldier. | '''Petty Officer Li-008''' was a [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] supersoldier. He survived the [[Fall of Reach]] only to be killed shortly thereafter in a battle within [[slipspace]] between [[Covenant]] ships and an ''ad hoc'' singular vessel created through the fusion of the {{UNSCship|Gettysburg}} and the captured Covenant {{Class|DDS|carrier}}, the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]''. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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On [[2552#August|August 27, 2552]] Li and twenty-four other Spartan-IIs were gathered at [[FLEETCOM HQ]] on Reach, where they were brief on [[Operation: RED FLAG]], an [[ONI]] [[operation]] with the objective of capturing a Covenant [[Hierarch]]. On [[2552#August|August 30]], Li boarded the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} with the others in preparation for RED FLAG. However, the mission was aborted when an order went out to all ships to defend Reach from the [[Fall of Reach|a massive Covenant assault]] that was underway at the planet. Li was one of twenty-two of the Spartans assigned to [[Red Team]], which was sent to land on the ground and protect the [[Orbital defense generator|power generators]] for Reach's [[orbital defense platform]]s.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 341'' (2010)</ref> As Red Team's Pelican—''[[Bravo 001]]''—descended to the surface of the planet, the dropship was attacked by [[Seraph]]s and dove uncontrollably towards the ground. [[Fred-104]] ordered Red Team to jump from the Pelican, which exploded shortly after. After regrouping and eliminating several small Covenant patrols, the Spartans traveled to [[Orbital Defense Generator Facility A-331]], where they met with the four survivors of the nearly destroyed [[Charlie Company]]. While Red Team was building up defenses at the facility, the Spartans received a distress call from [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]], [[Deputy Chief of Naval Operations]].<ref name="fs17">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''pages 17-34'' (2010)</ref> Fred then divided the eighteen members of Red Team still living into four teams. Li was placed on [[Team Gamma]] with [[Grace-093]] and [[Anton-044]], who was given the lead. Gamma Team was tasked with rescuing Whitcomb and his staff.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 24</ref> They were successful in locating and securing Whitcomb, but Fred ordered everyone to stay in hiding because their fallback point had been overrun by [[Covenant]] forces.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 111-112</ref> | On [[2552#August|August 27, 2552]] Li and twenty-four other Spartan-IIs were gathered at [[FLEETCOM HQ]] on Reach, where they were brief on [[Operation: RED FLAG]], an [[ONI]] [[operation]] with the objective of capturing a Covenant [[Hierarch]]. On [[2552#August|August 30]], Li boarded the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} with the others in preparation for RED FLAG. However, the mission was aborted when an order went out to all ships to defend Reach from the [[Fall of Reach|a massive Covenant assault]] that was underway at the planet. Li was one of twenty-two of the Spartans assigned to [[Red Team]], which was sent to land on the ground and protect the [[Orbital defense generator|power generators]] for Reach's [[orbital defense platform]]s.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 341'' (2010)</ref> As Red Team's Pelican—''[[Bravo 001]]''—descended to the surface of the planet, the dropship was attacked by [[Seraph]]s and dove uncontrollably towards the ground. [[Fred-104]] ordered Red Team to jump from the Pelican, which exploded shortly after. After regrouping and eliminating several small Covenant patrols, the Spartans traveled to [[Orbital Defense Generator Facility A-331]], where they met with the four survivors of the nearly destroyed [[Charlie Company]]. While Red Team was building up defenses at the facility, the Spartans received a distress call from [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]], [[Deputy Chief of Naval Operations]].<ref name="fs17">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''pages 17-34'' (2010)</ref> Fred then divided the eighteen members of Red Team still living into four teams. Li was placed on [[Team Gamma]] with [[Grace-093]] and [[Anton-044]], who was given the lead. Gamma Team was tasked with rescuing Whitcomb and his staff.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 24</ref> They were successful in locating and securing Whitcomb, but Fred ordered everyone to stay in hiding because their fallback point had been overrun by [[Covenant]] forces.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 111-112</ref> | ||
Li, Anton, Grace, and Whitcomb were forced to retreat to [[Camp Independence]] for three weeks, where they secured [[NOVA bomb]]s and from which they attacked the enemy repeatedly with guerrilla tactics over this span of time. They also continuously broadcast ''[[Oly Oly Oxen Free]]'' on the [[COM|UNSC E-Band]] until the signal was picked up by [[Cortana]] and [[John-117]] aboard the captured Covenant | Li, Anton, Grace, and Whitcomb were forced to retreat to [[Camp Independence]] for three weeks, where they secured [[NOVA bomb]]s and from which they attacked the enemy repeatedly with guerrilla tactics over this span of time. They also continuously broadcast ''[[Oly Oly Oxen Free]]'' on the [[COM|UNSC E-Band]] until the signal was picked up by [[Cortana]] and [[John-117]] aboard the captured Covenant {{Class|DDS|carrier}}, the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' on [[2552#September|September 23]].<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 156</ref> Shortly thereafter, John-117 led a team of survivors from the [[Battle of Installation 04]] in a [[Type-25 Spirit]] dropship to find the source of the broadcast. Anton found him and led him to a cavern where both Li and Grace were manning [[AIE-486H machine gun|chaingun]]s. Grace abandoned hers and followed Anton and the Master Chief inside but Li remained to stand guard at the entrance. Whitcomb provided information about the last known location of Halsey and the rest of Red Team. She and the remaining Spartan-IIs were trapped in an underground [[Forerunner]] [[Menachite Forerunner complex|complex]] beneath [[Menachite Mountain]].<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 173</ref> The cavernous interior was accessed via a hole the Covenant had dug. Whitcomb told Li to stay with the captured dropship operated by Petty Officer [[Shiela Polaski]] to act as a rear guard as the others were dropped off. When the entire group of [[humans]] soon found themselves surrounded and pinned down by thousands of Covenant fighters, they only managed to escape thanks to Polaski and that dropship. While making their escape up the Covenant's gravity lift that had been set up to ferry people to and from the interior of the subterranean complex, Li opened a hatch so he could crawl topside and fire an [[M41 SPNKR]] at the enemy forces accosting them. Escaping Reach with a [[Forerunner crystal]] of some sort, the group disembarked inside the ''Ascendant Justice'', which was soon fused together with the {{Class|Paris|heavy frigate}}, the {{UNSCship|Gettysburg}}, for the sake of power. | ||
===Death=== | ===Death=== | ||
{{Quote|Li, you're at three o'clock.|John-117 assigns a specific direction for Li to cover while Fred and Grace use welders to repair a breach in the ''Ascendant Justice'''s hull.}} | |||
The humans fled Reach aboard the ''Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice'' but thanks to the presence of the strange crystal, they inadvertently brought surrounding Covenant ships with them into an anomalous form of [[slipstream space]] when they jumped. Several [[Covenant cruiser|cruisers]] and {{Class|DDS|carrier}}s attempted to fire on the humans' combined ships to limited success, owing to the unpredictable way their weapons performed in this form of slipspace. A group of [[Sangheili]] that had remained hidden on the ''Ascendant Justice'' since it was captured then revealed themselves by detonating explosives and intentionally blowing a hole in its hull and damaging the ship's main power conduit. John, Li (now designated "Blue-Two"), Fred, Grace, and Anton moved to engage the Sangheili and repair the damage as well.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 218</ref> While on the outer hull, a stray [[plasma]] bolt from an enemy ship struck ''Ascendant Justice'', killing Li, Anton, and Shiela Polaski, who had piloted them to the breach. Following their deaths, the Master Chief listed Li and Anton as [[missing in action]] in accordance with [[ONI Directive 930]].<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 223</ref> | |||
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==Personality and traits== | ==Personality and traits== | ||
Li-008 was not one to sit out a fight. When Whitcomb told him to remain behind to guard the dropship during the extraction of Halsey and other Spartan-IIs from Reach a hint of bitterness could be detected in his voice for being forced to take what he then considered "soft duty". Li was a zero-gravity combat specialist and one of the Spartans' best [[Martial arts|martial artists]]. [[John-117]] felt that Li was as much at home in free fall as the rest of the Spartans were on solid ground.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 219</ref> | |||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}} | ||
*''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' {{Im}} | |||
*''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' | |||
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp|Boot Camp]]'' {{C|Unidentified}} | |||
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant|Covenant]]'' {{C|Unidentified}} | |||
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion]]'' {{C|Unidentified}} | |||
*''[[Halo: Reach]]'' | *''[[Halo: Reach]]'' | ||
**''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]'' {{C|Unidentified}} | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||