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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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* 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.

==Babylon 5==
* The [[
Earth-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.
* 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.
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*In the Cylon War, millions of humans were killed by the Cylons, both soldiers onboard ships of the Colonial Fleet and civilians killed on planets bombed by Cylon rebels.
*In the Cylon Holocaust, twelve planets, each apparently as populated as Earth, were destroyed by the Cylon fleet; estimated casualties would be around 72 billion people, with less than 49,000 known survivors.

[[Category:Fictional wars]][[Category:Science fiction themes]]