Private First Class Bernard Assaf was one of the Desert Rangers. After his death, he was buried outside the Ranger Citadel. His brother, David Assaf, was also buried there.
Behind the scenes[]
The character was named after the real-life Bernard Assaf, the creator and maintainer of the Wasteland Ranger HQ-Grid fansite. David Assaf is also his real-life brother.
For a time, Bernard was a part of the Wasteland: The Definitive Deconstruction team, under his handle "gammaben."
Bernard, using forum handle "RangerBen", was a forum moderator at the now defunct inXile Entertainment forums that were created ahead of the Wasteland 2 release.[1]