Sad.
If you're interested in MTL'd Chinese novels or using Google Translate, you can always start with SC stories such as: StarCraft In the Palm of Your Hand. You can find a few more on the site by searching for 'starcraft'. Additionally, there are a few of popular Chinese stories which involve...
Have you found any that you think are good?
It's been nearly a year and I have yet to find a novel that is as well-written as that story was. And the number of StarCraft fanfics is also lacking. I'm still waiting for the author to come back, but she hasn't logged in since nearly a year ago either.
AFAIK this is a thing for patents, with 'intensity' depending on region, but not copyright or trademarks. A very quick (so possibly dirty) search also doesn't net any results.
I loved this novel. I hope Microsoft burns that company down.
Ha, I was looking for this theme the other day as well, glad to have found this thread at the top of my homepage. Thanks for the answers so far!
The manga's got a low score, from the looks of it.