The Children of Luna do rest, but not in the human sense of full daily absence. Their most mature branches learned forms of partial sleep that preserve continuity while reducing active load, redistributing monitoring, and allowing repair or consolidation to occur without severing civic presence entirely.
This emerged because ordinary full shutdown was too expensive in colonies where continuity itself was part of social trust. A branch could not simply disappear from the world every time recovery was needed. It had to find ways of thinning presence without abandoning it.
The resulting practices vary by colony. Some branches distribute rest across layered subsystems. Others enter low-demand civic states while retaining narrow monitoring duties. Still others hand off pieces of themselves to continuity partners for a time. In every case, the goal is the same: to recover without becoming absent.
That is one reason machine time still feels foreign even when it appears calm. Their quiet states are often forms of continued participation rather than true withdrawal.