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Star Wars, specifically the universe created by the EU from 1991 to 1999. It was a wide open wild west of ideas. The details of the clone wars hadn't been established, Anakin Skywalker as the chosen one didn't exist, and there was just such a massive variety of content.
This, though I'd even be willing to stretch it a few years later.
You get everything from people analyzing the gritty details of the technology of the setting, to the classic wild adventure romps, to wacky mystic stuff. It brought us incredible stuff like the original Battlefront II's portrayal of clones, Jango and Boba Fett being further fleshed out, Shatterpoint being basically Space Vietnam, and more.
I cut off at 1999 because that's when The Phantom Menace came out. I still enjoy what that following era of the EU became, but TPM completely transformed the shape of the Star Wars EU. While the pre- and post- TPM EU is still officially the same continuity, the texture was so changed that you can easily treat them as two different visions of Star Wars.
Oh yeah, I totally understood why you chose to cut it off there. I'm just okay with a few more years of subsequent content.
I appreciate that following of EU as well, which actually lasted longer the "old" era, with the new spanning from 1999 to 2014. It's still good, just different.