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*** For that matter the Time War itself counts as both sides can travel through time causing it to be waged accross time itself, hence the name. The Time Lords even concluded that the only way to end the war would be to end time itself, which ''did not'' sit well with The Doctor. Additionally, Dalek/Time Lord hostilities and smaller skirmishes go back long before the war itself. Furthermore, since The Doctor and a number of Daleks managed to escape the time lock, which almost got broken once and might still cause the return of the time war, the surviving Daleks and The Doctor are still continuing the conflict.

** The war between Atrios and Zeos in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S16/E06 The Armageddon Factor|The Armageddon Factor]]''. It eventually turns out that {{spoiler|Zeons have been dead or gone for years, but the supercomputer built to organise the war effort has been keeping things going without them}}.

* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "A Taste of Armageddon", two planets had been at war for centuries. They used computers to launch mathematical attacks and then order "casualties" to disintegration chambers. When Kirk posits that if they could come to an agreement on such a system, they should have been able to end the war, one planet's leader gives the fatalistic reply that they'd just start fighting again later over something else, so why bother with peace at all?

* Also happens in the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Battle Lines" - casualties are resurrected by nanites at the beginning of each day.