Well I do try to make it appealing. Rather than have the Rangers travel across the galaxy, they stay on one planet while Sith try to destroy them in order to take over the entire galaxy. Plus I've chosen what I think will be the post Legacy era. Which is still going on in the Star Wars Legacy comic books. With the main antagonist that started the Sith-Imperial war in the Legacy comics, Darth Krayt. I just brought Krayt back to life through cybernetics and have out for revenge against the new Unified Galactic Federation, which is like the United Nations. Only it combines both the Empire and Republic.
FYI Krayt DID conquer most of the galaxy under his One Sith Empire. However his Empire was taken away when he was killed. He also almost drove the Mon Calamari close to extinction.
I've tried like a Kamen Rider style story with Star Wars, but I abandoned it for a Super Sentai. I started to use vehicles, but with a GoGoV and Changeman theme combination. So I'll restart once more to make it seem more appealing. Maybe go back to the old school Sentai from the 80s, with up to three vehicles forming one giant robot.
BTW Star Wars would already be considered as tokusatsu, wouldn't it? I mean it is made up of mainly special effects. I think 90% of the film series is special effects.