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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8436121" data-attributes="member: 6704184">That all assumes a lot about dragons, and vastly undersells humanity’s ability to make war. Like you really can’t imagine structures to protect crops from aerial assault?  Not to mention you’d need a high birthrate for dragons to even have a chance of them winning, and your flight assumptions require both soaring flight with an incredible range (because you assume they can stay in the sky long enough to evade ballista), and probably very long range on their fire breath. If they have to swoop in within even 100 ft to burn crops, they’re within accurate now range, much less readied ballista.  Then we add in that you’re assuming humans…can’t adapt and invent new strategies to combat a new threat, in spite of “making new war technology and strategy” being one of the things humans are best at.  And then you have to establish why on earth the dragons want to eradicate humanity. They wouldn’t be significantly in competition for resources, they don’t fill the same ecological niche, so why would the dragons put forth an expansively organized and prolonged campaign or eradication in the first place?</blockquote>