07-03-2016, 03:03 AM
(07-02-2016, 10:08 PM)Surge Wrote: I don't usually keep tallies. The actual personal body count of my sona/OCs probably doesn't exceed 100. The indirect tally through worldbuilding...well let's see, nuclear holocaust of Earth, so that starts us off with about 8 billion, near genocide of a space faring race, so we'll chalk that up in the 10-20 billion range, that genocide was in response to an attempted genocide against a much more populous race so we'll chalk that one up in the 20-25 billion range, the often implied but never explored total genocide of at least 2 lesser space faring races, we'll only put that at roughly 10b though, a massive interstellar war, can probably just add another 8-10b over that, we'll throw in 2-3b because of constant petty warfare in the confederacy, add another 15b for the Tecarian civil war, and just throw out a conservative estimate of 3-7b for the current conflicts. So we're left with about 73 billion sapient beings if we assume the lowest presented values, most of which assume that in an age of interplanetary travel the average planet rarely exceeds 5b. However if I were to adjust for more densely populated planets, and thus accordingly larger militaries, as in the few instances of all out war it's to be expected that the military will represent a percentage chunk of the population due to recruitment drives and conscription and such, it would easily break 100b.
tl;dr including warfare I am responsible for at least 76 billion imaginary lives lost.
I don't really tally as I don't consider individual lives as worth anything. And I'm bad at math, so I only chose the examples directly applied by my characters. If I wanted to tally it up I'd have to somehow use math to find out exactly how many lives filled each individual reality, as I've created about 100 already. And only about thirty of them ended up completely dead-state. I can't apply math to that.
I congratulate you on being able to even apply estimates to yours. I don't care to do so to mine. I've operated on everything from horror to exploration. And as I've said, I create new worlds and realities at a whim. The joke of that writing prompt is one that I've played with quite a lot. If every writer is the god of the worlds they create.