Bruce Delgado was the leader or "boss" of Chatsworth after The Change. His father had been a used car dealer but raised horses for a hobby. After the change, Bruce used his experience as a horseman to form up an amateur cavalry unit called the Chatsworth Lancers. This enabled him to rise to the top and expand Chatsworth's territory into the surrounding communities making them into vassal states and eventually dominating the western end of The Valley. However, Bruce's desire to expand south into Topanga and to the Pacific was blocked by that community's wish to remain independent and the tactical advantage of Topanga Cannon being a narrow choke-point and easily defensible.