Far Flung Hope: The Great War

Prologue: How many lives?

Sentient species have always heralded the last Great War as being the last horrific conflict that would ever occur. They always seemed to resolve that once this conflict is over, the memories of the last war would never again make warfare necessary.
How wrong they always are...
Some of the most destructive conflicts in all history were billed as being the last Great War. The American Civil war, 1861-1865, over 620,000 dead. The First World War, over 9 million died. The Second World War, 1939-1945, estimated at over 50 million dead. These were just over two hundred years on one planet created by the Forerunners researchers. Thousands of other worlds underwent wars and conflicts just as destructive as these, if not more so.
The United States – Soviet War, 1945-1993, 152 Million dead.
The Russian – European Union War, 1984-1983, 8 Million dead.
The United States – United Kingdom War, 1862-1865, 2 Million dead.
The United States of the Americas – African Hegemony War, 1999-2009, 9 Million dead.
The United States – German War, 1944-1952, 102 Million dead.
The English – French War, 1604-1664, 10 Million dead.
The Orion-Antaran War, -1043 - -013, 103 Billion dead.
The First Human Alliance – Antaran War, 042 – 253, 3 Billion dead.
The Second Human Alliance – Antaran War, 334-609, 20 Billion dead.
The Third Human Alliance – Antaran War, 610-1031, 31 Billion dead.
The Fourth Human Alliance – Antaran War, 1031-3041, 23 Billion dead.
The New Republic – Imperial Civil War, 3 BBY-30 ABY, 2 Billion dead.
The Earth – Race War, 1942-1945, 34 Million dead.
The Sentient Machine – Saurian Republic War, 099-134, 4 Billion dead.
The Earth – Martian War, 1901-1902, 30,000 dead.
The Earth – Goa'uld War, 1994-2004, 3 Million dead.
The Japan – Sweden War, 1892-1903, 22 Million dead.
The Federation – Klingon War, 2046-2132, 5 Million dead.
The New Republic – Yuuhzan Vong War, 32 ABY-40 ABY, 22 Billion dead.

Sentient peoples have always waged war. They will always continue to do so. But now a war is not being waged for profit or for gain. It is being waged to defend and protect a species, a way of existing. It promises to be the bloodiest, most violent war that any galaxy shall ever see.

The Coalition - Covenant War, 2525 – and continuing, 122 Billion dead and rising.