At the time of writing this, I have only read the first two books in the series. But I have read enough to know that the humans and dragons aren't on the best terms, I also don't know if anything changes between them but this is set in an alternate universe so, not a problem. and I don't know if the world of Pyrrhia is somehow some sort of postapocalyptic earth but again, alternate universe. I decided to give the dragons technology in this.
prologue
Location-the world of Pyrrhia.
Date- 5,000 years before modern day earth.
A sandwing queen by the name of Daybreak had ordered a team of engineers to make her doorways to other worlds. The dragons slaved day and night, for years, to craft the doorways, but at long last they did it. They made thirteen gateways all of which led to another world. The gateways themselves was a sight to look at, they were solid gold, rings with rubies, emeralds, and sapphires all around the outer edge in a repeating pattern.
Queen Daybreak spent lots of her time exploring these new worlds. But on one world imparticular she came across the most peculiar species. One day when she was exploring an alien forest, she found a settlement of small, pale, creatures that, to her surprise walked on only two legs, humans. She ordered her guards to bring the humans of the settlement back through the gateway and to find more, she wanted to know more about these creatures, find out what they were good for. She used them as slaves in her palace, kept them as pets, she even discovered that they were, edible. She watched what they did in this new environment, how they struggled to survive, and how they scavenged what they could, so she named them, scavengers.
She kept on taking people from their homes, she already had thousands of them but she wanted more. And what the dragons were doing hadn't gone unnoticed, the humans of earth had become aware of the dragons taking people from their homes, and fought back to try and stop them. One day when Daybreaks guards were attacking a human village taking people, a large band of knights showed up to stop them. The Knights defeated all of Daybreaks guards, and when she found out, she decided it was enough and stopped going to that world. Because she could no longer take humans from earth she had to start breeding them so she would never run out of slaves. Over a hundred years later it was common to find humans all over the place, doing what they were told so they weren't killed. But the humans were learning how to use the dragons tech, how to use the gateways, they were going to escape. They were going to show the dragons that they messed with the wrong species, they were going to kill Daybreak.
Daybreak had summoned the other queens to her palace to share the gateway plans with them. The humans saw there chance on how to kill Daybreak and the queens.
They knew that she would the queens through one of the gateways so they set a trap for them, they rigged the generator so that when they went to go through, the power to the gateways would turn off. Daybreak would then tell her engineers to go and fix it. And once no one was looking, they would turn the power to the gateways back on so they could get away from the dragons. They didn't know where the gateways led but they had to get away before it was too late. Once the last person was through they'd set off a bomb that would destroy the palace and kill Daybreak and the other queens. The explosion would also kill the engineers, and since they were the only ones that knew how to build the gateways, the knowledge would die with them.
But in the end, they may have caused more harm than good. Because when they killed the queens, they caused the dragons of that world to hate humanity to such an extent, that they would use their spaceships to track down the worlds we escaped to, including the world we came from. In killing the queens they may have very well doomed us all.