Hot Standby

Hot Standby 

in the Union Military this is an Alarm and Acton readiness state. It means all systems including back up and redundancy systems are running. Fighters are ready in the Launch tubes, Pilots ready to gun engines to thrust in an instant. Gunnery crews and Translocator Cannons have a round in the breech ready to fire.

(hot stand´bī) (n.) A method of redundancy in which the primary and secondary (i.e., backup) systems run simultaneously. The data is mirrored to the secondary server in real time so that both systems contain identical information.