You in charge of the far future

[montypython]

Jedi and Sith aren't prerequisites for a SW story, the Force and space opera is enough of a core to build a story on.

[Darth Fanboy]

The easiest way to cut off some rehash problems would be to stop with all the doom and gloom war shit all the time. Warfare will always happen naturally but where are the scientists, the explorers and smugglers ?
Not everything has to be an epic galactic war where the fate of the force hangs in the balance with your Skywalker hero or Grand Vader villian.

Unfortunately the title of the franchise is STAR WARS. It's going to be difficult to find any decent stories that don't involve some kind of combat. There have been some decent stories though done from the smugglers perspective, but usually with the war in the background of it all.

I would most likely try and get some short story like material on the go that fleshes out the galaxy from multiple points of view while changing the locations and focus. Putting aside the copyright issues, having a few stories taken from other Sci Fi settings would help to add variety.

It would also add unoriginality, which is one of the biggest accusations being currently leveled against the EU

Have Republic ships the equivelent of the Enterprise boldly going where noone has gone before etc.
Meet new races, maybe get some ancients - like the Rakatan Empire with their Starforge or maybe the race that built that Corellian Supernova Station.

Why would this need to be done for the "far future". You could easily take the same story ideas and apply them to civlization in the SW galaxy pre=Galactic Republic.

Fighting the Replicators or dealing with the Wraith who feed on the Force.

.......no.