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'''Sci-Fi Conflict Casualties''' occur in great numbers in many books, films and comics - often much 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 authors cannot be discounted either.

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** Thousands of people on several Calamari crusiers died when the second Death Star fired on the ships - which complet
ely destroyed the ships.

==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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* The Robot Wars - Millions of robots kill their owners.
* [[Block Mania]] and [[The Apocalypse War]] - by the end half of the population of [[Mega City One]] - somewhere in the region of 400 million citizens - and the entire population of East Meg One are dead.
* Necropolis - not as high as some previous conflicts, but still huge amounts of deaths.
* Judgement Day - billions are killed.
* Total War - terrorists blow up a number of [[City Block|City Blocks]], killing 4,000,000 citizens in the process.