So they did copy GW twice then. Thats interesting. GW basically copies and pastes the Tolkien fantasy tropes into space for 40k anyway.
and funnily enough while blizzard copied the general idea of protess and zerg for Eldar and Nids, and copied marines pretty much full stop, GW then counter-copied Blizzard by making Tyranids become more Zerg-like in post-starcraft editions of 40k. look at old tyranid models and they're a lot closer to xenomorphs while modern nids and zerg as basically identical.
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