I was just reading up on some fiction of Starcraft and noticed that  there are an awful lot of parallels? Are the both universes related in any way?
Terran - UNSC  
Protoss -  Covenant 
Zerg - Flood 
Xel'Naga - Forerunners 
Overmind -  Gravemind  
 
Are they both based of the same subject matter? How do they both get away with such similarities without one suing the other?

Personally, I think both universes are shallow and shouldn't be any kind of example for 'good' universes etc.

i think i'm going to go kill myself, humanity is obviously fucked

lol but are they both based on some other DnD universe or something?

" lol but are they both based on some other DnD universe or something? "

" Halo: Combat Evolved is a first-person shooter, created by Bungie Studios, a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios at the time. It was released as an  Xboxlaunch title on November 15, 2001" 
 
"  StarCraft is an influential real-time strategy game released by Blizzard Entertainment on March 31st, 1998" 
 
Just saying.  
 
Also,"Simpons did Simpons did it." Everything has already been done.

...both stole from Games Workshop.  /thread

" ...both stole from Games Workshop.  /thread "

" " Halo: Combat Evolved is a first-person shooter, created by Bungie Studios, a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios at the time. It was released as an  Xboxlaunch title on November 15, 2001" 
 
"  StarCraft is an influential real-time strategy game released by Blizzard Entertainment on March 31st, 1998"  Just saying.  "

" @Dipstick said:

" " Halo: Combat Evolved is a first-person shooter, created by Bungie Studios, a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios at the time. It was released as an  Xboxlaunch title on November 15, 2001" 
 
"  StarCraft is an influential real-time strategy game released by Blizzard Entertainment on March 31st, 1998"  Just saying.  "

Yeah but Halo has ties to Marathon which was released in 1994. "

And Starcraft is based off of Warhammer 40K.
 
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" @Manhattan_Project said:

" @Dipstick said:

" " Halo: Combat Evolved is a first-person shooter, created by Bungie Studios, a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios at the time. It was released as an  Xboxlaunch title on November 15, 2001" 
 
"  StarCraft is an influential real-time strategy game released by Blizzard Entertainment on March 31st, 1998"  Just saying.  "

Yeah but Halo has ties to Marathon which was released in 1994. "

True,but the story lines (with the flood and what not) are not tied as far as I know. "

"...both stole from Games Workshop.  /thread "

" @Manhattan_Project said:

" @Dipstick said:

" " Halo: Combat Evolved is a first-person shooter, created by  Bungie Studios, a subsidiary of  Microsoft Game Studios at the time. It was released as an   Xboxlaunch title on November 15, 2001" 
 
"  StarCraft is an influential real-time strategy game released by  Blizzard Entertainment on March 31st, 1998"  Just saying.  "

Yeah but Halo has ties to Marathon which was released in 1994. "

True,but the story lines (with the flood and what not) are not tied as far as I know. "

yeah bungie did copy the shit out of starcraft didn't they.

Thing that people are forgetting here that may lend some credence to this is that Halo was going to be an RTS

These kinds of parallels exist across countless sci-fi universes, it's interesting the number of links you can make over all the sci-fi fiction out there.

" @Dipstick said:

" @Manhattan_Project said:

" @Dipstick said:

" " Halo: Combat Evolved is a first-person shooter, created by  Bungie Studios, a subsidiary of  Microsoft Game Studios at the time. It was released as an   Xboxlaunch title on November 15, 2001" 
 
"  StarCraft is an influential real-time strategy game released by  Blizzard Entertainment on March 31st, 1998"  Just saying.  "

Yeah but Halo has ties to Marathon which was released in 1994. "

True,but the story lines (with the flood and what not) are not tied as far as I know. "

There have been signs that point to the Forerunners being the same as the race(I forget their name) that also mysteriously vanished in the Marathon games. This, along with dozens of other references (Mjolnir Mark IV armor in the Marathon games for example) would suggest that they do in fact have some ties. "

I think it went something along the lines of Aliens > Warhammer > StarCraft > Halo in terms of chronological timeline. Either way, there's bound to be similarities in genres.

its just like a fantasy setting with humans, elves, dwarves, ogre/orc that every  fantasy game utilizes..., the basics can be similar but the stories can be different.

Warhammer?

Read the novel Starship Troopers. Then you will see were all these games got their ideas from.

I think the similarities end with, its space yo, there are animal like alien dudes and civilized alien dudes along with us humans in space. Also, there is no such thing as pure originality. Everything is pulled form everything else, and is then altered in a personal, unique, and creative way. Ideas stem off of each other, and unless someone comes out and says they are ripping off something, or it is extremely obvious, cough Darksiders cough, then its not really a bad thing.