What was the Bloodiest war ever?

I was wondering, what was the bloodiest war ever in the SW Universe so far? The Clone Wars, the Galactic Civil War, Jedi Civil War, The Yuuzhan Vong Invasion?

 

Gotta be the Vong.

 

Definitely in terms of concentrated death, I'd say the YV war takes the cake with 365 trillion (on the GFFA side alone, recall, not the Vong as well) in a little over 4 years. While the death count was definitely higher in other wars, as Sin points out, I think the Vong had the most concetrated wave ofd eath.

I really doubt the ultimate death toll was that high in the GCW. Even with catastrophes like Alderaan and Carida thrown in, you're probably still only in the tens of billions of casualties in the whole war. The war was never really galactic in scale - for most of it, the Rebels were fighting guerrilla war, asymmetrically, and while it was a big war, it's got nothing on the New Sith Wars. For that matter, something like the Mandalorian wars might outclass it in that regard.

- Keralys

 

Not neccessarily. The galaxy's population was probably much smaller then. Its just like the USA; if, say half the population of 1792 had been wiped out by a plague, it'd sound like alot, but in actuality it'd be at most a couple million.

I think the Vong war is the safe bet.

 

Interesting...Palpatine was, if nothing else, efficient. Apparently the YV needed Vader. I agree that appears to have been the bloodiest in terms of concentrated death count.

 

I'd have to say that YVH war is probably the bloodiest.

 

I agree with that until I see something that says otherwise.

 

That's only if we're counting the New Sith Wars as a single conflict, however, instead of the name for a period of history consumed by back-to-back smaller conflicts, like the Sictis Wars and the Light and Darkness War. Remember that their nominal predecessor, the Old Sith Wars, actually encompasses at least four very distinct galactic conflicts that took place at staggered intervals over four decades. It wouldn't surprise me if the Clone Wars, Galactic Civil War, Yuuzhan Vong War, and whatever the war in LOTF is called are one day given a similar umbrella title due to their temporal proximity.

 

Bloodiest war was in 28 ABY, when Kyle Katarn told Mara Jade her hair was obviously dyed.

But seriously, that blasted Vietvong war.

 

We can't really know much about historical Galactic demographics.

 

The Brood War. With respect, you don't know what I went through to win the Matriach back for Zeratul . . .

 

Defiantly Vong. It just seemed like every other book in the NJO an entire planet was being decimated.

 

Bloodiest war ever? Probably one we've never heard of.

Bloodiest war out of those we know? Probably the Yuuzhan Vong War.

 

I dont know wich war was the bloodiest,but i think the Mandalorian war led by Mandalore the Ultimate,had the best atmosphere.Its atmosphere reminds me to the Eastern Front during the 2. World War.

 

The Vong war, the Vong killed trillions.

 

Remember, that 365 trillion was just a figure people were tossing around at the time.

 

I think it depends on how the blood was spilled.

If we are talking purely clashing combatants...I'd but my chips in the New Sith War.

If we are taking into account the deaths of innocents as well...Vong War by a dramatic margin.

And let's just set it straight right now...the wars of the "movies" are like playground fights compared to most of the conflicts in the EU. The Empire, with all it's massive resources, never truly fought a conflict of serious scale.

 

The point is really moot. Whatever one you died in was the worst for you.

 

People seem to forget all the other conflicts where planets were being eradicated, in favor of the YV.

The Clone Wars, the Galactic Civil War and the aforementioned New Sith Wars conflicts all had that. Given the YV only made a big run for Coruscant, while the other conflicts were spread out through the galaxy, I'd say they're more devastating. (Also given the fact that the YVW has been toned down and even partially ignored in some post-NJO sources, it can't have been the all-encompassing nightmare some claimed it to be. The galaxy was still suffering from the effects of the Clone Wars and the GCW decades later. Sure the Vong-growths were a menace, but wildlife don't constitute an on-going war effort.

 

So did the Clone Wars.

We know probably a few Trillion died on Humbarine.

I think the Clone wars should probably be the bloodiest fighting the galaxy ever saw.

 

According to Legacy, they were still rebuilding from the Vong War in the 120s ABY.

 

"They". Who are "they"? All I see is several high-profile planets getting slagged, Coruscant getting terraformed, and some planets we've never heard of before getting a moon dropped on them. Dropping a moon is certainly impressive, but in a galaxy of millions of systems, that's gonna be a drop in the ocean.

 

Well technically speaking, there were a lot of droids in the Clone Wars. Thus reducing the amount of flesh and blood casualties.

 

Well that was Grevious Armies, but the Bulk of the Seperatists seem to have actually been flesh and blood soldiers fighting for their homelands. One of the reasons I think the Clone Wars was the bloodiest war of all time was that it was truly galaxy wide that all these people died.