With the novel `Omega Squad', the talented Moscow writer Kirill Yakimets opens the series of science fiction works `Wars and Worlds'. The action of the novel takes place in a world parallel to ours. Two space powers, the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Confederation, are fighting for dominance in the inhabited Universe. Suddenly, a third force intervenes in their struggle... Lieutenant of the Janissary Corps Vasily Giray and his friend, the Byzantine princess Olga, save the world from bloodthirsty invaders... True, at the cost of the almost complete destruction of the entire world order.