Yes, I've had similar problems. I'm usually the lore junkie at my table, but I've been trying to help my friends along and some of the tables I've come up with are helping. So I know how that can be. I agree that dialing back the lore-centric stuff is a good idea to help mitigate new players getting intimidated. I've also been working on a Star Wars-themed GM's Apprentice deck, which will also be for free when I'm done, and which, like the Star Waracles, I've created mostly to help me run games of my own, and because I enjoy creating little tools like these.
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Wow, wow wow! Excited to see these resources. For whatever reasons, West End Games, Wizards, & Fantasy Flight/Edge choose not to include a lot of random tables in their materials. There are a handful of them scattered through maybe a dozen books and two books in particular - the WEG Planets Book and the Galactic Campaign Guide from WoTC. So for folks looking to run a sandbox or play gm-less (coop/solo) it is a bit of challenge to find the right random tables to get the ideas flowing. (Starforged's tables are good, but not a perfect fit. Stars Without Numbers' tables don't work at all for me. A handful of things in Traveller are helpful for Edge of The Empire or Age of Rebellion games but not much.)
I finally finished the Star Wars version of GM's Apprentice. I'm honestly okay with giving it away for free, but itch.io allows for donations, and I don't want to step on the toes of the creator of GM's Apprentice. So I'm not including the instruction manual for it, so that people will still have to pay for GM's Apprentice on drivethrurpg.com (it is very inexpensive). But mine is Star Wars-themed, with cards that contain mini versions of the Star Waracles here, as well as small, one-card character sheets for quick gameplay if you're on a plane ride and bored. I'm not sure where else I can post it if not itch.io. So if you want to share your email I can just send it to you, or I suppose I can host it somewhere. It's about 24 print-and-play sheets, full of cards to cut out on your own.