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Sci-fi conflict casualties
'''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.

(contracted; show full)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.
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** Many independent contractors that were working on the second Death Star even as the battle raged on outside were killed when the Death Star's reactor core exploded.

==Babylon 5==
* The [[Minbari War]]
** Approximately 250,000 people died during the course of the war.
** The Battle of the Line - At the end of the war, a large number of Earth ships made a final stand at Earth.  25,000 people fought in the battle.  Only a little over 200 people were left by the time the Minbari stopped fighting.
* The Battle for Earth
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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.