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'''Conflict casualties''' occur in great numbers in many [[science-fiction]] books, films and comics - often at higher rates than in real-life conflicts and sometimes higher than the current human population of the [[Earth]]. Such high figures can be seen in part as a reaction to the much higher population growth that occurred throughout the twentieth century, though ideas of one-upmanship among [[author]]s cannot be discounted either.

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==Star Wars==
* The [[Yuuzhan Vong]] Invasion - It was estimated that about 360 trillion individuals died during the invasion.  That would be approximately 60,000 Earth type worlds with populations of six billion each.
* The Destruction of [[Alderaan]] - The first [[Death Star]] attacked and destroyed the planet Alderaan.  This resulted in the deaths of 
mbillions of innocent people on the surface of the planet.
* Liftoff of the [[Lusankya]] - When the Lusankya, which had been buried on Coruscant, lifted off from the surface of the planet, it devastated over 100 square kilometers of cityscape.  Millions of people died when this happenedwere killed as a result.
* The destruction of [[Byss]] by the [[Galaxy Gun]] and [[List of Star Wars planets#Carida|Carida]] by the [[Sun Crusher]] killed all the inhabitants of those worlds, many millions at the very least.
* The [[Battle of Endor]]
** 250,000 people on board the Executor were killed when the ship's bridge was destroyed.  The ship careened out of control, and crashed into the Death Star.  Despite the lethal temperament of [[Darth Vader]], serving on the ship was seen as an honor and a fast track to promotion.  Many of the best and brightest of the Imperial Navy's officers and crew were on the Executor, and died as a result.
** Thousands of people on several Calamari crusiers died when the second Death Star fired on the ships - which completely destroyed the ships.

==Babylon 5==
* The [[Minbari War]]
** Approximately 250,000 people died during the course of the war.
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* Total War - terrorists blow up a number of [[City Block|City Blocks]], killing 4,000,000 citizens in the process.

==[[Fallout]]==
* The Great War of [[October 23]] [[2077]] and following nuclear winter reduces the population of the [[United States]] from 400 million to less than a million; It can be deduced that in China and elsewhere the death count is equally horrifying.
* In [[Fallout 2]], the Enclave devises a toxic agent to kill the remaining population of the world.