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While Athena is a goddess of wisdom and strategy, and Bellona of destruction, their connection to war still retains a core of humanity and proximity to the battle. Athena’s strategy isn’t about remote destruction, it's about intellectually and physically engaging in battle. She's not a general pushing a button from a distance; she's actively involved in guiding warriors, weaving tactics, and ensuring that warfare is just and honorable. Bellona might embody the fury of war, but that still involves human engagement on some level, it’s still personal conflict, whether you're wielding a spear or a sword, or leading armies into battle. Nuclear arms, on the other hand, detach the god of war from everything that makes them human, there’s no personal valor in pressing a button that destroys millions from miles away. It’s not just about "glory"; it’s about the very nature of war. War, in the context of these gods, is humanized. It’s about warriors, heroes, and strategy, not about obliterating a population with impersonal technology.

Microchips and robots are very different from crafting weapons. Hephaestus was a craftsman who worked with metal and fire, not with circuits and algorithms. The essence of the blacksmith god’s work is tied to the earth and the material world. Robots, artificial intelligence, and microchips are abstract and digital, they’re ideas and systems, not something you shape with your hands or from raw material. A blacksmith god’s purpose was to forge and craft, he wasn’t just about creating technology; he was about working within the limits of nature and shaping it into useful forms. If we’re talking about gods of innovation, it's not about computers or advanced tech, it's about mastery over the natural world and turning it into something functional, whether that's a sword or armor.
Remember that Talos wasn't crafted by Hephaestus in every tradition. It was most likely crafted by Daedalus, who didn't end too well.