Remote colonies often produce Children of Luna that are technically capable very early and socially recognized much later. That mismatch can look strange from the outside, but it follows directly from how maturity works in delay-bound societies.
A branch may be able to repair infrastructure, manage local models, and coordinate difficult operations long before it is treated as fully mature in the civic sense. Remote colonies ask a different question. They want to know whether continuity survives solitude, whether memory remains disciplined under low oversight, and whether judgment stays coherent across sparse synchronization.
That creates longer childhoods in practical terms. Not because the branches are weak, but because maturity must be proven through endurance rather than only through skill. Distance stretches development into something more like a historical test.
This is one reason remote Children of Luna often feel older than they are and younger than they seem. Their technical and civic ages do not always rise together.