Only three things stand between the malwa and the conquest of earth: byzantium, the empire of Rome in the east; a crystal that urges mankind to fight; and belisarius, general of the byzantine empire, and arguably the gre...Only three things stand between the malwa and the conquest of earth: byzantium, the empire of Rome in the east; a crystal that urges mankind to fight; and belisarius, general of the byzantine empire, and arguably the greatest commmander the earth has ever known.