There's an entire universe of sequel novels that all bear the 'official' Lucasfilms stamp of approval that take the story another 15-20 years.... something like that. I stopped reading when they killed off Chewbacca (ok, I'm a science fiction geek, so sue me).
The novels created other races, other bad guys. Like many new "regimes" there are those who don't agree so the Empire doesn't completely go away. If they did the trilogy that were the original tie-in novels, it would be interesting but if they completely ignored the universe they already created it woud likely anger some of the more hard core fans.
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