Lockstep
Lockstep noun - An established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity.
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- Lockstep: Set in a Mundane Dogmatic universe, where it takes decades just to talk to other stars, an interstellar civilization maintains a program of "Lockstep" whereby all its distant colonies go into stasis/hibernation for set periods of time in order to keep the whole civilization synced up.
Source: Creator / Karl Schroeder
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