Did any Matoran actually die during 2001-2003 story arc?

[Surel-nuva]

It has already been retconned that not only 1,000 matoran lived on Metru Nui, but thousands of Matoran.

Matoran count?

It would follow. I think they just didn’t feel they were going to be doing crowd scenes in MNOG that reflected that, and they wanted to keep the idea of smaller villages.