In a way, I'm reminded of the old poem about John Henry (Dragons) in his fight against the machine (in this case, a technological singularity). The Dragons playing a game where they don't even know their playing, the game is rigged, and prize is the continued existence of their species.
Good analogy, and good questions. It may be that detachment from the machine in their faces that ultimately destroys them. From a dragon's perspective, I'd say Aztechnology is the biggest worry they've got. No dragons that I'm aware of even live in Aztlan, no known infiltrators or manipulators, and they KO'd Sirrurg and took back part of Denver in the period of a few months. Somehow I doubt that the Azzies have anything to do with Sybil, but they may draw enough of the dragons' collective attention to allow for other forces to gather strength.
Aztechnology is the teenager who plays with butterfly knifes, likes to show off his pistol collections, makes statues of people he hates to put out on the range later, and responds to the saying "Drugs are bad m'kay" with making his own custom ones in his basement. Almost all dragons hate the Azzies for a lot of reasons. Some because they use blood magic and draw the Horrors closer but mostly because they tell the Dragon Council to go **** themselves with a bastard sword. That's something only the dragons are supposed to do (and the IEs at times) and for a group of mere mortals to actually the guts and the guns to do so? shameful.. I mean kids these days..
As for dragons within Aztechnology it's self. There is rumored to be a horror infested one on the board of directors but never saw anything come of that.
I don't think the Big A is behind Sybil as well. It isn't their style to do something like that. They would much prefer get an army, drive it through the heartland of their enemy, and hear the lamentation of their women.
Personally, Hestaby and the D saw the writing on the wall that dragons as a whole are going to lose a lot of the prestige and power in the coming years (I may even say "made obsolete") and want to move the species towards more mainstream integration with society as a whole, thus sparking the war that they had.
They may not know of the Matrix's ability to eventually spit out a entity much much more intellectually superior than them but they do know mere mortals can now slay greats and possibility even destroy all life with a series of Thor Shots/Nuclear war.
As for the rest of the Greats who don't understand, well...
