As a formerly hard-bitten SW fan (and I still have an incredible fondness for the universe) & fanwriter, it was hard to resist. It's a lovely canon story. Amusingly enough, I find that the two prequels, possibly because they are so disappointing in film-making terms, lend themselves far better to fanfic. (Not to mention slash. When I first heard of slash, I was faintly squicked. When I first heard of Luke/Han or Luke/Wedge *shudder* slash, I was *majorly* squicked. It seemed to me to run contrary to any kind of existing subtext, GL-intended or not. But Obi/Qui slash, although still not something i'll usually read, made more sense. As for the more general Prequel fanfic, <iWany</i> rewriting of that dire text usually improves it...)

I tend to be with you on erotic writing (and the <i>insert-peg-A-into-hole-B</i>, by-the-numbers-porn kind of stories are the worst.) This being said, every now and then, a very explicit story also works - it's all in the writing...