How would a bard work in a sci-fi setting?

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You could have them make speeches about defending the homeland / destroying the enemy / protecting the innocent. Though they may not have an instrument the speech could give inspiration.

A science fiction bard would be a hacker with a wikipedia.

Pic related is how.

The comms guy, he manages communication of strategy from ship to ship, keeping everything coded, while trying to break the enemy fleet's code. The Cyberwarfare guru.

>THIS QUIET OFFENDS SLAANESH
I love noise marines.

The phrase "social media guru" comes to mind.

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what do you mean how would it work?

you think there is no entertainment, no music, not storytelling, no speeches, in the future?
it would be exactly the same

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Strap some LRAD and you've got something
youtube.com/watch?v=myWxwNQfo-8

The same way they do in a fantasy setting, but with aliens.

So Jack Harkness, basically.

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Either Macross, Miku, Jack Harkness, or that blue opera lady from 5th Element.

Maybe a combination of some or all.

i want to fuck captain jack
100% no homo

>Not making him a travelling, rock & blues star looking for a place to settle.

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mein negro

With the [POWER OF DESIRE]

Same as a normal bard, dresses like a "young hip stud"/ retarded looking punk. Probably have rainbow hair slick back as fuck. He would have fact speakers on him and carry a DJ board and play dubstep.

Spending most his time trying to pic up space babes, cyborg chicks. When doing party/plot relevant stuff he makes jokes and acts as a moral support/dumbass.

youtube.com/watch?v=OsJKdxPwZdk

ITS ALL GUTS, BABY

watch some old episodes of silerhawks.

this dude would play and sci fi magic notes would shoot out and zap dudes.

Like this

youtu.be/POUBV-KDJh0

Self aware MP3 player.

youtube.com/watch?v=AmWLaFQNwVE

Classical music.

I still refuse to believe he's actually dead. He just ascended to a more awesome plane of existence.
They claim it was sudden incurable brain cancer, but really? He'd just ingested enough alcohol and played enough bass that he became one with the metal and ascended.

I just wish he'd hung on another few months and completed the gig I was going to see him at.
Even if I did miss what would have been his slot and his memorial because I got soaked to the bone and had to head back to my tent for dry clothes.

Same. I was going to see him. He was the greatest.

Go read Samuel Delany's Nova. It has a literal space Bard in it.

I know she's an alien, but there's no fucking way a singer can afford to put a goddamn brick in her gut.

Like this.

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LISTEN TO HIS SONG

Reminds me of Joe Rogan or something.

Drownload?

OH
OH
OH
TIME TO ACCELERATE

maybe she can't afford NOT to

>Joe Rogan

How?

>No mention of Rhysling I'm disappointed in you.

Ever read Asimov's "Foundation" series? Ever hear of "The Mule"?

He has the power to control minds and adjustments, either through subconscious suggestion or outright "adjustment". He even uses a device on which he plays music and projects a light show that allows him to 'adjust" more people more quickly.

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I wanted to like this scene but it was pretty cringe.

A certain commissar comes to mind.

I sure hope someone shoots that thing in the fucking face in whatever game it's from

Macross 7: High level bard is the only one who can stop space-Cthulhu from eating humanity

youtube.com/watch?v=I8lB37atn_k

youtube.com/watch?v=g5ciBWNwjsY

Honestly, I enjoyed it. I'm glad to see nu!Trek just embrace the shark jumping, instead of trying to go "b-but we're not just a tribute, we're just as good as the real thing!!1!eleven!" that we had throughout Into Darkness

I wish they would have fleshed out the villian more than having 3 seconds of exposition near the end of the movie but otherwise I agree. nu!Trek needs to forge it's own path and that scene, for what it's worth, was pretty damn awesome.

Sci-fi bard is a Communications Major with heavy focus in project management. They use words like "Soldier! Recontextualize your aim to truly push the envelope on these aliens!" "Druid! Achieve transformational change!" to inspire courage.

SUPAH GREEN!

Okay so oyu remember that guy from neuromancer with the holographic knee lazors?

The fucking kpop bard that crowdsurfed all the way to the lich she had to fight?

Maybe the bard is also a hacker who organizes guerrilla lives via deep web BBS away from prying eyes of big brother government who frown upon anything not related to working and being productive for the sake of the country.

No, there was literally a guy in William Gibson's Neuromancer who was a "performance artist" who used holograms including cybernetic implanted holographic knee lasers to pull tricks and ruses on people in combat, as well as to blind opponents.

A high tech bard is basically a full on illusionist more than a bard.

Sounds like a rogue. And the laser's in his chest, not his knee.

Beat me to it.
That guy had the coolest job in the whole horde.
Too bad he was blind and seemed retarded, the price you pay I guess.

I distinctly remember he ALSO had knee lasers.

Like this youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24