Remote colonies do not live in the same present as the Moon or the inner system. They may remain coordinated, but they do not remain synchronized in the human sense. Long delays, scarce contact, and heavy local autonomy create branches that experience time through local eras rather than through a continuously shared now.
For the Children of Luna, this changes more than scheduling. It changes what feels current, what feels mature, and what counts as a generation. A remote branch may go through an entire local governance cycle between authoritative contacts from elsewhere. Its sense of urgency becomes local. Its concept of maturity becomes tied to how much can be carried alone.
This is one reason remote machine populations often appear unusually patient or unusually strange to closer colonies. They are not merely far away. They are living under a different political and operational clock.