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"For every human saved, a million more will be killed if we don't put an end to this."

- Jai talking to Adriana in Lost Heroes: Hope.

Jai Thompson is a and leader of. Jai was a combat veteran of the, and the , however after the firefight on the human asteroid colony, Jai and the rest of Gray Team disappeared and their ship landed on a Forerunner shield world, known as Icarus.

Early life
At the age of five, Jai was orphaned from the result of a street corner murder from which both his mother and father were fatally shot at gunpoint after a theater show. Out of fear, Jai ran from the scene. As the gunman ran after him, he hid inside an old gutter therefore saving himself from being murdered as well.

Jai lived with the poverty stricken people in the city he grew up in. He could not return home, and he knew of no local family members within the city. For three months Jai served as a street urchin until a nearby foster home director had recognized him and brought him in. Jai lived there until his sixth birthday, the same night that he had be abducted by the.

Training
"You have been called upon to serve. You will be trained - and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of Earth and all her colonies."

-, speaking to Jai and the rest of the Spartan conscripts.

Jai awoke, not on a soft bed, but a rough military cot. He awoke to the sound of hard spoken men yelling at him. He awoke to the fear of where he was, or was it a dream, or a nightmare? He was then in a room full of children the same age as him, when the female voice had said that they could not return home, and that they had been forced into military service, Jai attempted to leave the compound. When he was stopped by a trainer he continued to escape for the next five months with another Spartan recruit Adriana-111. Every attempted had them captured, but that only strengthened Jai's resolve to be free and try new strategies. From learning hand-to-hand combat techniques during training exercises, Jai would use that to his advantage when pulling off escape attempts. Several trainers however, suffered broken bones, lost eyes, crushed fingers and toes, and after failing to subdue them with stun devices, they chose the safety of firing incapacitating darts from.

Formation of Gray Team
After his final attempt, he was given a low sedative to calm him, and decrease his chances of escaping once more. He was sent before Dr. Halsey, offered him the chance to leave. She explained to him that if he attempted to escape again, he would be shot with a dart containing neural paralysis agent and would wake up in a city with no account of the past five months. However she warned him that the agent reacted badly with pre-adolescent children and could cause permanent brain and memory damage, causing him to forget everything, his parents, his birthplace, even his name. She also explained how Adriana would feel, as they considered each other to be very good friends.

The meeting with Halsey discouraged him to make any more escape attempts, but later that night he gave it one shot at it. After giving it some thought with Adriana, he thought it best that they return to the base. The day after the two were introduced to Mike-120, who admitted to hijacking a Pelican and destroying it when he was chased by the UNSC. The three then formed into Gray Team, and after the augmentation procedures, Jai was designated as the leader of the team, albeit Mike and Adriana did not truly acknowledge his command of the squad, to Jai's dismay.

Human-Covenant War
Gray Team fought the Covenant mainly from behind the lines, severing communications, destroying fuel and weapons depots, even assassinating potential high-grade targets. Jai, along with a task force of other Spartans, assisted Marines in retaking the besieged colony of Harvest, but Gray Team was eventually pulled off the planet to assist in the. Afterward, Jai and Gray Team were given the freighter,  for means of transportation and a base of operations to go into Covenant space and cause chaos against the mighty Covenant war machine. Gray Team would also rout out remnant groups hiding out throughout human space.

Battle of the Rubble
Gray Team was sent to the Rubble, an asteroid-colony after rumors that the hadn't been acknowledged, therefore threatening every human settlement, including  to the wrath of the Covenant armada. Shortly before the battle, Jai was given the mission to rescue and protect, who had been trusted by the community of the colony to keep the navigation data leading to Earth and all known human colonies safe. However when Jai found Delgado, he was barely breathing and was found next to the dead body of. When Delgado regained consciousness, he told Jai that has stolen the chip and planned to sell it to a local  black market operating in the Rubble. When Jai regrouped with Gray Team, them formulated a plan to stop Bonifacio's deal to the Covenant. Jai would free the crew of the, such as  and a contingent of  lead by  , Jai later told them the situation that they were now currently in.

From the help of a handful of ODSTs lead by Faison, Jai assaulted the,  and retrieved valuable intelligence for the ship's computers. While securing the vessel,  in command of a team of Unggoy boarded the ship and attempted to retake it, killing a number of ODSTs and injuring Faison. When Jai went back for him, he was confronted by, and the two then proceeded to face each other in hand-to-hand combat. Due to Jai's Spartan augmentations, he was easily able to match the Sangheili in combat. When the Elite had retreated, Jai found Faison's body and discovered that he had been killed from a plasma bolt to the head. Jai left his body there for unknown reasons.

Jai later returned to where he had Keyes and the rest of his men  for. Jai then risked his own life to allow the, to gain access to the atmospheric controls. Juliana opened the airlock, thereby sucking out all the air killing any un-prepared Covenant members in the habitat, ending the battle.

Battle of Metisette
After the Rubble had been cleared of hostile Covenant beings, the Spartans and remaining UNSC forces discovered a habitat known as the of  living on the nearby world of. They then discovered that a Kig-Yar by the name of was preparing to mobilize them for combat. When deciding if the Covenant on Metisette should be eliminated to save the residents of the Rubble, Jai was in favor abandoning them as they openly supported the Insurrectionist movement.

Lt. Keyes was able to convince Jai to save the people of the Rubble and led a team of ODSTs to the surface of the planet to destroy the Unggoy habitat. The team moved in, and destroyed the Covenant anti-air weapons protecting the area and placed a tactical nuke. Afterward they evacuated the area and the nuke detonated. The blast damaged the Redoubt, but did not entirely destroy it.

Debriefing
After completing their objective, Gray Team reported back to the colony of to finalize their battlefield debriefing. After the debriefing, Jai and Adriana sent a requisition for pilot a UNSC Prowler to continue combating Covenant forces from behind their own lines. Their permission was granted and the Prowler, Memphis Belle was loaded with hundreds of thousands of pounds of food, water, ammunition, weaponry and prototype weaponry capable of sustaining the team for about twenty years without resupply.

Battle of Icarus
Main Article - Halo: Icarus (LHF)

Jai was already on the bridge when the alarm went off. He took the shift while Micheal and Adriana got some rest. When the ship's AI had announced the Memphis Belle's slipspace engine and main engines had been manually shutdown from somthing not onboard the vessel, Jai contacted Mike. When Micheal arrived he announced that he could not fix the problem. Then the ship exited slipspace and the view-screen showed a large planetary object, but clearly had no features of a terrestrial planetoid.

Jai had Roslin wake Adriana up show she could see for herself. He hadn't known she arrived on the bridge when she spoke in-favor of exploring the world, as it was pulling the prowler through its massive tunnel-like structure toward the center of the world.

When they landed, Jai lead the party to a structure on the other side of the valley where the Belle had landed. When he accidentally leaned off to a wall, he was sucked in. When Adriana tried to help him, the wall was solid again. Jai told the others that he would find a way out, but they should look for something that atleast resembles a door. When Adriana and Mike announced they found a door, Jai's radio picked up strange interference. The next thing he saw was blackness.

Jai regain consciousness realizing he was being carried by six. Another, machine resembling a small ball came over to him and spoke with him.

Becoming Outcasts
Main Article - Halo: Outcasts (LHF)

The Next War
Main Article - Halo: Hope (LHF)

Discovery
Main Article - Halo: Discovery (LHF)

Behind the Scenes
The image above in the infobox is actually Benedict Cumberbatch, known for playing as John Harrison in the blockbuster-hit Star Trek: Into Darkness, he has also appeared in a number of BBC television shows.

List of appearances

 * (first appearance & canon)
 * (mentioned & canon)
 * Halo: Icarus (LHF) (fanon)
 * Halo: Outcasts (LHF) (fanon)
 * Halo: Hope (LHF) (fanon)
 * Halo: Discovery (LHF) (fanon)