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When a ''very'' large number of people, a whole fleet, an entire city, or even a whole planet, is sent to another place, another time, or another dimensional plane.
A '''Mass Teleportation''' through time is more specifically referred to as an ISOT (acronym for ''[[Island in The Sea of Time]]'', a novel by [[S.M. Stirling]] in which the entire island of Nantucket is teleported back to the Bronze Age).
The phenomenon may be deliberate, but is usually [[Freak Lab Accident|accidental]], [[Hand Wave|unexplainable]], or the work of an [[Alien Space Bats]]. When an ISOT takes place on a small scale, the victim is [[Trapped in the Past]].
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* ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'': The Psychlos teleport an army and an airforce to Earth.
* ''Island in the Sea of Time'': Where ISOT comes from.
* ''[[Left Behind]]'': The Rapture is, after all, a type of
* In the [[Arthur C. Clarke]] novel ''Time's Eye'', a parallel universe world is built using chunks of Earth from different parts of time. This includes [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, and their respective armies]]. And a colonial British regiment (with [[Rudyard Kipling]]) and a Soyuz capsule orbiting the earth.
* The West Virginia mining town of Grantville being teleported to 1632 Thuringia in the ''[[1632]]'' saga by Eric Flint.
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* Ben moves the whole island in the fourth season of ''[[Lost]]''.
* ''[[The 4400]]'': people are abducted individually at various times and places throughout the 20th century, but all 4,400 of them get teleported back simultaneously to the same location.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''. Although actually an example of an [[Faster-Than-Light Travel|FTL drive]], the moment when [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Galactica dives into the atmosphere]] of New Caprica, then jumps out moments before it [[Colony Drop
* ''[[Voyager]]'': The entire starship Voyager is transported inside the Voth's city ship in one episode.
** This is also the premise of the series.
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* The Jump Point Beacon in ''Haegemonia'' allowed the player to teleport entire fleets across space in an instant and even bypass the wormholes usually required to travel between systems. Unfortunately there is a small chance of your fleet failing to arrive at that location, sometimes appearing somewhere else sometime later, sometimes never reappearing at all.
* In the lesser known game ''[[War Wind|WarWind 2: Human Onslaught]]'', a human military base is teleported from the Arctic into the alien world of Yavaun.
* In ''[[Suikoden IV]]'', Viki (the [[The Ditz|ditzy]] [[Time Travel
* In ''[[Sonic Adventure Series|Sonic Adventure 2]]'', Sonic learns how to manipulate time and space via Chaos Control. When he and Shadow, both in [[Super Mode|super form]], perform Chaos Control simultaneously, they're capable of teleporting space stations back into orbit.
** And in ''[[Sonic Chronicles]]'' we discover that several civilizations from multiple dimensions have been sucked into a realm called the Twilight Cage. Exactly why this is happening is [[Left Hanging]], but the proposed theory is that someone or something is [[Sealed Evil in a Can|sealing away cultures that become too powerful]].
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