If Rhodan arrives in time we could save this race from total extinction.
Lamar believed that it was necessary to bring about the "total extinction" of the Indian tribes.
"Do you doubt that a slave race in revolt would settle for nothing less than our total extinction?"
They're our only hope for saving this old mudball we live on from total extinction.
Between that and the species' total extinction, it had seemed the only sane choice to make.
In the 1860s, conflict between Chimariko and white miners led to almost total extinction of the entire population.
It was saved from total extinction by two developments.
The police and the world wanted nothing but her total extinction so that things might go along as if she had never been.
"We will never stop short of our total extinction," the Abbod said.
What we are talking about is the wiping out - the total extinction - of a particular species. The figures speak for themselves.
