Jedi1520 said:
Some of the better ideas I read about have to do with a (forgive the noun) "alien" force threatening the republic. The problem with this is that if there is no "outside" power mentioned in any of the OT movies. And it does not make sense that, if such a power had existed, it would just show up and collapse without a trace. For this reason I think we should adopt as a rule that:
the Anti-Republic force MUST consist of political elements and species that exist in the OT.
Well, if we go by this logic, then there are many things we couldn't include in our rewrites. For example a prostitute character couldn't be added because prostitutes weren't mentioned or alluded to in the films, or ice cream men because ice cream wasn't mentioned, etc.