Those are some interesting articles. With that Fall of the Republic one, you can definitely tell that it's very Empire Strikes Back centric.

I think we're all on the same page in that we all want to preserve the reveals in the OT. Like Darth Lucas, I would like to structure the story in a way that looks like a pre-77 production, with a simple story that perhaps is tinged with WWII, Cold War, and Vietnam War thematic elements.

The biggest problem with this take on a story is that nobody has the correct point of view to write a story about this. Even people who saw only the original trilogy would have a massively skewed point of view, such as the fan who wrote Fall of the Republic. After several years of this type of thinking, the best solution I can come up with is to take the OT as canon and write a story that is only tangentially related to the OT.

Whether or not the Lucas Prequels ever existed or not is a moot point for me. The story of the OT stands perfectly well on its own. There is no need to explore the backstory of characters like Anakin and Obi-wan, as part of the fun is imagining what they were like "back then". Thus making a story set during the clone wars and avoiding the OT characters would serve the dual purpose of avoiding the specific plots of the Prequels. In the end, the galaxy is big enough for the two of us: the Lucas Prequels, and our rewritten prequels. Because like it or not, we are all influenced by them. Might as well make our story fit into those, so that we respect the creator of this world.

Yeah, it's not a rewrite in the strictest sense, but it would be cool to make our story look like the "original" Star Wars movies, and then have it appear that the OT was made as a sequel to them, and then 20 years later Lucas made some movies exploring the backstory of characters we already knew, and that didn't interfere with the originals, as an interesting side note.