Faran Brygo

Faran Brygo is the name of one of the major characters in Wasteland.

Background
An exception among ambitious wastelanders, Brygo never wanted power or control over a government. Brygo simply wanted a comfortable life and wealth, but to achieve that goal, he had to participate in power games and establish a stable, civil society with disposable income. Never holding formal office in his native Las Vegas, Brygo thrived in the anarchic town, ensuring that the city was well-governed and well-policed while cashing in money from visitors coming into the city. His robust network of lieutenants was headed by Max, an android who came in one day from the wasteland and proved to be an incredibly capable fighter - and when the first robotic monstrosities arrived in Vegas in 2087, a reliable source of information on them.

Brygo sounded the alarm and dispatched Ace to gather help from outlying towns, as the people of Vegas survived under the ever-present threat of the robot menace and Faran himself escaped attempts on his life by Fat Freddy. Extinction events come and go, but politics remain the same. After Ace narrowly escaped his fate at the hands of Ugly John, he brought the Desert Rangers to aid the city, led by Angela Deth and Snake Vargas. Fighting through the robots, they allied themselves with Brygo, recovered Max - kidnapped by the machines and dismembered in the sewers - and consolidated his power. What followed was 15 years of unbroken prosperity, which ended when radiation storms and the second wave of robotic monstrosities engulfed Vegas in 2102, as Matthias and Cochise AI made their second gambit.

Later that year, trading the heat of Nevada for the cold of Colorado, Faran reestablished his power base in Colorado Springs, rebuilding his syndicate under the protective umbrella of the Patriarch's nation, working hard to establish what would become Little Vegas. Although Little Vegas is heavily downsized compared to its prior iteration, Brygo considers the locale as being close to what Las Vegas had been while noting that customers wouldn't know the difference either way.

Quests

 * Arch enemy of Fat Freddy, the other crime boss in Las Vegas. If you kill him for Fat Freddy, you get an onyx ring from his corpse.

Quests

 * Big Trouble in Little Vegas: Faran is an integral part of the quest, a spider at the center of the web.

Behind the scenes
Faran Brygo is a play on Brian Fargo, the project leader of Wasteland at Interplay. It is also Brian Fargo's nickname in the official Wasteland 2 forum.