Star Wars: The Old Republic – Rise of the Hutt Cartel is an expansion pack developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set in the distant past of the Star Wars universe. It was released for Microsoft Windows in April 14, 2013. The expansion concerns the planet Makeb, a resource-rich world which is embroiled in civil war and on the brink of environmental catastrophe, and features two differing overarching plots depending on whether the player character is affiliated with the Sith Empire or the Galactic Republic.