Warhammer 40,000

Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, first published in 1987 as Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. Set in a grim, gothic far future where the decaying Imperium of Man wages eternal war against alien races and Chaos forces, it is the most popular miniature wargame in the world and the foundation of an enormous franchise of novels (Black Library), video games (Dawn of War, Space Marine), comics, animation and merchandise (Wikipedia)