Classes:
Bard
The following new rules apply to bards.
New Class Skill
The bard's new class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Navigate (Int), Research (Int), Urban Lore (Wis), and Use Device (Int).
Class Features
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: When a bard gains the Technical Proficiency feat, she automatically becomes proficient with all high-tech simple weapons and light armor. Bards are also proficient in an archaic martial weapon of their choice. If your character receives the Technical Proficiency feat during character creation, this weapon may be of the more technologically advanced versions.
New Equipment: Most modern bards take full advantage of technological resources. A variety of instruments and headsets or clip-on microphones with built-in amplifiers are available. These devices greatly improve the range of abilities based on bardic music and voice. These devices allow the bard's voice and music to be heard at a greater distance, usually up to 300 feet away. Additional range limitations listed for specific bardic abilities are not affected by this equipment. For example, a bard with a headset microphone is able to project his voice much further than he can unaided. His fascinate ability, however, is still limited to targets who can hear and see him within 90 feet.
Bardic Knowledge: Until the bard has gained the Technical Proficiency feat, he is limited to knowledge gathered from his homeworld or planets he has visited personally. Once he has the Technical Proficiency feat, you can assume the bard spends some time absorbing information from worlds far and wide and so improves his storehouse of knowledge. For example, a frontier bard has no chance to know anything about the Empire, unless there has been some previous contact. Once the bard has gained the Technical Proficiency feat, he has access to vast storehouses of information and the virtual library of the Infonet. The bard can easily pick up news, stories, rumors, and legends from planets on the other side of the galaxy.