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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.

The following are estimated numbers of casualties in various science fiction worlds.

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==Star Trek==
* The [[Dominion War]] - over 800 million Cardassians were killed by Jem'Hadar forces when the Female Shapeshifter ordered the death of the entire Cardassian race.  Another seven million Cardassians had already died in combat throughout the entire conflict.
* Wolf 359 - Nearly 11,000 people died when attempting to defend the Federation against a Borg incursion.⏎
* World War III - Approximately 600 million people had died in this conflict, which had taken place sometime in the mid 21st century.  About ten years after the war, Zefran Cochrane discovered warp drive.  His first warp flight attracted the attention of the [[Vulcan]]s, who made first contact soon afterwards.  Within a century, not only had Earth recovered from the war, but had a unified world government and finally solved many problems that had dogged humans for centuries.
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* 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.
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** Thousands of people on several Calamari crusiers died when the second Death Star fired on the ships - which completely destroyed the ships.
** 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
** 20,000 civilians died when Earth Alliance starships fired on the transports they were on in violation of the rules of war and the Earth Alliance Constitution.  This was the impetus that finally provoked John Sheridan to take the war back to President Clark, and to a large number of Earth Alliance forces to defect and oppose Clark.⏎
* Bombing of Narn - When the Centauri bombed the Narn homeworld using mass drivers, it resulted in massive devastation to the Narn homeworld, and the deaths of over 5 million Narn.
* [[Drafa Plague]] - The [[Markab]] species became virtually extinct after the second outbreak of the plague occurred in 2259.
* The Shadow 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.