Darth Vader

[Basileios Drolias]

Here is the piece that when I first read it it reminded me of a 
describtion of Darth Vader:


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"Then come - the Space Helmets! At first you may be alarmed, on no-
ticing that they appear to be fashioned from skulls. At least the upper
dome of this unpleasant headgear is certainly the skull of some manlike 
creature built to a larger scale... Perhaps Titans lived under this
mountain, and their skulls got harvested like giant mushrooms... The
eye-sockets are fitted with quartz lenses. Filters may be slipped in.
Nasal bone and upper teeth have been replaced by a metal breathing 
apparatus, full of slots and grating. Correspondingly to the jaws is a built-
up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps hous-
ing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality. For an extra few
marks you are allowed to slip one of these helmets on. Once inside these
yellow caverns, looking out now through neutral-density orbits, the
sound of your breath hissing up and around the bone spaces, what you 
thought was a balanced mind is little help. The compartment the 
Schwarzkommando were quartered in is no longer an amusing travel-
ogue of native savages taking on ways of the 21st century..."


basil.