Rob Chestney is an employee of BioWare and one of the game developers of Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online game. He also is the writer of the Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace webcomic, which tied into the video game. He also wrote The Old Republic: Smuggler's Vanguard, a short story published exclusively on StarWars.com which told a story about an adventure of the Mirialan smuggler Hylo Visz.