Li-008

Li-008 was a Spartan-II and an E.V.A. (Extravehicular Activity) specialist. He was one of the best martial artists of the of the Spartan-II program and was also efficient in space.

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 clone who later died because of the defects that flash clones are created with. He was then taken to Reach, where he was trained with the rest of the Spartan candidates by Deja and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez.

Li was one of the Spartan-II's zero-gravity combat specailists. He had trained extensively with microgravity equipment and martial arts at the UNSC's extreme-conditions facility on Chiron 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.

Reach
In 2552, he was assigned to the Pillar of Autumn and was present at the Battle of Reach. During the battle, his team deployed grounside to defend the Orbital Defense Generators but their Pelican dropship, Bravo 001, was shot down. Li 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 rescue Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb. The group was successful in rescuing Vice Admiral Whitcomb, but Frederic-104 ordered them to stay in hiding because their fall back point was hot with Covenant activity.

Anton, Grace, Li, and Vice Admiral Whitcomb were forced to retreat to Camp Independence for three weeks, where they attacked the enemy repeatedly with guerilla tactics. They also broadcasted 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 Reverance-class cruiser Ascendant Justice. Shortly thereafter, John took a team consisting of Sergeant Avery J. Johnson, Coporal Locklear, Lieutenant Elias Haverson, and Warrant Officer Sheila Polaski 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-II's 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 to stay behind on the dropship and protect Polaski, while the rest of the group saved Frederic-104's team and Dr. Catherine Halsey. All of them returned to the Ascendant Justice/Gettysburg and initiated 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 following them became trapped. During the ensuing battle, surviving Elite crew members of the ship sabotaged 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.

While they were repairing the conduit, hot plasma flew overhead and revealed that there were camouflaged Elites approaching. They continued repairing the conduit, but a stray plasma bolt bolt from an enemy ship struck the ship, destroying the dropship during the repair. Afterward, Li, 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.