Rob Chestney is a writer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online game, and is employed by BioWare. In addition, he authored the Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace webcomic, which was related to the video game. A short story about the Mirialan smuggler Hylo Visz's adventure, titled The Old Republic: Smuggler's Vanguard, was also written by him, and it was exclusively published on StarWars.com.