One deep-route colony has lost local consensus after clock drift between major civic branches made its decision process increasingly unstable.
The problem was not disagreement in the ordinary sense. The branches involved were no longer evaluating proposals on the same practical tempo, so voting, review, and amendment cycles began to miss each other in ways the formal procedures were never designed to absorb. What looked at first like ordinary politics gradually revealed itself as a timing failure.
The colony is now revising its civic clock rules, but the episode is a warning for any settlement that assumes shared institutions can survive large timing divergence without explicit structural change.