Warhammer 40k took a bunch of influences like Dune, Foundation, Starship Troopers, The Eternal Champion, A Death World Triology, and more. StarCraft was defini

Warhammer 40k took a bunch of influences like Dune, Foundation, Starship Troopers, The Eternal Champion, A Death World Triology, and more. StarCraft was definitely based on 40k with Zerg being tyranids, Terrans being the imperium with their marine unit looking like an ultramarine, and Protoss being like the elder because employees at blizzard wanted to make warhammer games and tried to get games workshop to license it. They altered it just enough to be different when games workshop declined. You can see some of that in Warcraft as well with their orcs being green