Anno in cui Iain M. Banks colloca l’inizio della guerra fra Idirani e Cultura nel suo romanzo di fantascienza “Consider Phlebas”. La guerra termina con la totale vittoria della Cultura sui fondamentalisti religiosi Idirani. Total casualties amounted to 851.4 billion (±0.3%) sentient creatures, including medjel (slaves of the Idirans), sentient machines and non-combatants, and wiped out various smaller species, including the Changers. “The war resulted in the destruction of 91,215,660 (±200) starships above interplanetary, 14,334 orbitals, 53 planets and major moons, 1 ring and 3 spheres, as well as the significant mass-loss or sequence-position alteration of 6 stars”
