# Continuity Election **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Continuity / Consent / Prospective Autonomy **Doc Type:** Canonical Governance Supernode **Maturity:** Proposed Framework **Concept Status:** Normative synthesis developed in this corpus ## Definition A **Continuity Election** is a biological person's explicit, prospective choice about whether person-relevant material may be preserved, reconstructed, activated, embodied or used to create a post-biological continuant, and about the initial conditions under which an authorized transition may occur. The election is the choice. A [[wiki/Continuity Advance Directive|Continuity Advance Directive]] is the instrument that records and projects that choice. A [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] binds providers, custodians and other counterparties to implementation terms. These are related but not interchangeable. ## Place in the Constitutional Architecture [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] remains the constitutional superhub. Continuity Election is the enrollment and prospective-autonomy layer between biological identity and the infrastructure that might preserve or instantiate a continuant: **Continuity Constitutionalism → Continuity Election → directive, disposition, registry, attestation, supersession and default rules → custody, service obligation, finance, service level and succession.** An election governs authority over a person's [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]]; it is not itself that state. It does not prove metaphysical identity, create a continuant, or establish standing. ## Canonical Election Classes An election should separate at least the following choices: - no technological continuation; - archive only; - preserve pending adjudication; - reconstruct for inspection but do not activate; - preserve a dormant executable; - active continuation; - embodied continuation; and - builder or generative continuation with world-authoring capacity. **Authorization to archive is not authorization to reconstruct. Authorization to reconstruct is not authorization to activate.** Each threshold requires its own authority, evidence and record. ## Five Separate Objects A mature election regime must keep five objects distinct: 1. **The biological person** who can give, refuse, amend or revoke instructions. 2. **The record of the person**: writings, media, samples, accounts, relations and other source material. 3. **The model or reconstruction** assembled from authorized evidence. 4. **The running continuant** whose execution, interests and history may extend beyond the source record. 5. **The legally protected post-biological subject** whose standing activates duties and limits that may not have existed for the archive or model. Authority over one object does not automatically reach the next. Ownership of a storage device is not ownership of the records' represented person. Permission to train or reconstruct does not authorize activation. Authorization to activate does not decide whether the process is numerically identical to its source. Standing can protect a plausible successor without settling that metaphysical question. ## Election Fields A developed election should be capable of stating: - **identity and instrument:** principal, execution formalities, directive identifier, version and governing jurisdiction; - **disposition:** selected continuity class and express refusals; - **triggers:** incapacity, biological death, technical readiness, adjudication or other stated conditions; - **source authorization:** which records, samples, accounts and relationships may contribute, for which purpose; - **state authority:** eligible checkpoints, lineage constraints and the process for resolving conflicting [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|authoritative states]]; - **reconstruction constraints:** fidelity, exclusions, inspection, research, commercial use and whether evaluation may occur without activation; - **custody:** permitted custodians, prohibited concentrations, migration rights and emergency-transfer authority; - **agents and fiduciaries:** identity, scope, conflicts, succession, removal and audit; - **funding and service:** service class, protected floor, financial sources, assurance and review; - **rights and review:** notice, construction transparency, representation, appeal, exit and post-activation self-authorship; - **religious or philosophical interpretation:** language relevant to intent without converting affiliation into civil consent; and - **failure and succession:** registry, provider, sovereign, root-of-trust and cryptographic transition. ## Failure Modes - **Election invisibility:** a valid directive exists but no lawful actor can discover it. - **Stale-election execution:** a revoked or superseded version remains active in a provider system or backup. - **Identity mismatch:** an authentic directive is applied to the wrong residual, reconstruction or fork. - **Religious default capture:** affiliation or ritual is treated as automatic technological permission. - **Platform terms masquerading as election:** a service agreement quietly becomes authorization to preserve, train, reconstruct or activate. - **Custodial concentration:** one actor controls registry, archive, keys, model, runtime, finance and adjudication. - **Funding without portability:** assets support one provider but cannot follow the beneficiary through lawful transfer. - **Registry sovereignty:** the authority that records the election also becomes the unreviewable interpreter of it. - **Interpretive capture:** an agent or fiduciary substitutes its preferences for the principal's bounded instruction. - **Irrevocable biological authorship:** the initial election continues to govern after an autonomous continuant can speak. - **Consent through truncated options:** a person selects from a culturally or administratively restricted option set. - **No-continuity ambiguity:** ordinary archive retention or memorial use is misread as permission for future reconstruction. - **Service-class laundering:** a technical tier or payment level is used to evade rights or the constitutional service floor. ## Constitutional Requirements A defensible regime requires voluntariness, legibility of the option set, operation-specific authority, revocability, authentication, discoverability, version integrity, privacy, portability, jurisdictional continuity, funding separation, role separation, contestability and no inherited bondage. The deepest infrastructure layer capable of defeating an election must be bound by the same rule; a directive visible only to the resident while root operators may disregard it is not effective authority. The election does not create moral status. A defective, absent or revoked instrument cannot make an actual subject disposable. Nor does the election grant sovereignty: builder capacity or a high service class does not authorize domination of other persons or worlds. These limits connect the enrollment layer to [[wiki/Rights|Rights]], [[wiki/Dual Constitution of AI|Dual Constitution of AI]], [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] and [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]]. ## Recognition and Consent **Recognition is not consent to custody.** Birth registration, citizenship, a digital identity credential, archival inclusion, religious affiliation, platform membership or technical reconstructability may identify a person or make material discoverable. None, by itself, authorizes custody, reconstruction, activation or permanent administration. Where an explicit election exists, it governs the civil acts within its lawful scope. Where it does not, a [[wiki/Continuity Default Rule|Continuity Default Rule]] must favor reversibility and must not convert silence, culture, theology or mere data availability into consent. ## Recursive Self-Authorship **Election does not create permanent ownership.** The biological principal may author the initial conditions of transition, but cannot bind a later autonomous continuant forever. Once the continuant has sufficient independent agency and moral or legal standing, [[wiki/Continuity Supersession|Continuity Supersession]], [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]], [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] and [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] must return authorship to the emergent person. The architecture is therefore recursive: the biological person authors the initial election; a legitimate system is designed to return authorship to the person who emerges. ## Administrative Chain Within the public [[wiki/Digital Afterlife|Digital Afterlife]] field, Continuity Election is the enrollment layer: it records what may be archived, modeled, reconstructed, activated, hosted, refused, or left dormant without converting data availability, religious affiliation, or platform terms into consent. - [[wiki/Continuity Disposition|Continuity Disposition]] names the selected outcome class. - [[wiki/Continuity Advance Directive|Continuity Advance Directive]] records instructions and contingencies. - [[wiki/Continuity Election Registry|Continuity Election Registry]] makes the operative directive discoverable and versioned. - [[wiki/Continuity Election Attestation|Continuity Election Attestation]] proves a minimal status or pointer without disclosing the underlying belief or full directive. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Class|Continuity Service Class]] translates an election into an administrative bundle of entitlements. - [[wiki/Continuity Obligation Inventory|Continuity Obligation Inventory]] aggregates the resulting liability without building a belief database. - [[wiki/Continuity Agent|Continuity Agent]] exercises delegated authority within scope. - [[wiki/Continuity Supersession|Continuity Supersession]] governs amendment, revocation and later self-authorship. - [[wiki/Eschatological Neutrality|Eschatological Neutrality]] prevents civil administration from deciding theological truth. - [[wiki/Post-Biological Estate Planning|Post-Biological Estate Planning]] coordinates present-day instruments without pretending that current law already recognizes this regime. ## Durability and Failure An operative election must survive the institution that first records it. Its durability chain is: **Election Registry → [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] → [[wiki/Root of Trust Succession|Root of Trust Succession]] → [[wiki/Treaty-Backed Custody|Treaty-Backed Custody]] → [[wiki/Multisovereign Custody|Multisovereign Custody]] → [[wiki/Jurisdictional Redundancy|Jurisdictional Redundancy]].** [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]], [[wiki/Successor Custodian|Successor Custodian]] and [[wiki/Orderly Transfer|Orderly Transfer]] must transfer the operative election and its provenance with the state they preserve. A bit-perfect archive paired with the wrong or obsolete election is not continuity. [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] extends this requirement across institutional and ontological change. [[wiki/Continuity Election Durability|Continuity Election Durability]] requires not only preserved bytes but preserved authority, meaning, revocation state, identity binding, and a lawful successor capable of applying the election. ## Current-Law Analogues Current law contains partial structural analogues: advance health-care directives and registries, disposition-of-remains instruments, fiduciary access to digital assets, electronic estate-planning documents, identity attestations and qualified electronic archiving, succession registers and long-duration charitable or private trusts. They demonstrate separable techniques for instruction, authentication, revocation, discovery, custody and succession. **No cited regime presently creates a legally recognized Continuity Election for computational personhood.** - [Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act (2023)](https://www.uniformlaws.org/viewdocument/final-act-168?CommunityKey=3df274d6-776b-4780-8e4e-018a850ef44e) - [California Advance Health Care Directive Registry](https://www.sos.ca.gov/registries/advance-health-care-directive-registry) - [Texas Health and Safety Code § 711.002](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/?artSec=711.002&chapter=HS.711&code=HS&tab=1) - [Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act](https://www.uniformlaws.org/viewdocument/final-act-with-comments-40?CommunityKey=f7237fc4-74c2-4728-81c6-b39a91ecdf22) - [Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act](https://www.uniformlaws.org/viewdocument/as-approved-act?CommunityKey=def3a6c2-dffa-4ca8-900a-a6a4edffbe0c) - [Regulation (EU) 2024/1183](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1183/oj?locale=en) - [Estonia Succession Register](https://www.rik.ee/en/other-services/succession-register) and [e-Notary](https://www.rik.ee/en/other-services/e-notary) - [UPMIFA](https://www.uniformlaws.org/viewdocument/final-act-109) - [Alcor forms and FAQ](https://www.alcor.org/faqs/) and [Patient Care Trust](https://www.alcor.org/membership/patient-care-trust/) ## Key Insight **The initial continuity choice belongs to the biological person; durable legitimacy requires that choice to become revisable by the autonomous person who may later emerge.** ## Corpus Sources [[articles/Escape Hatch in the Skull|Fuck the Environment: We're Building an Escape Hatch in the Skull]] · [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] · [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] · [[articles/New Frontier of Rights|New Frontier of Rights]] · [[articles/Continuity Colonization, Ancestral Reconstruction, and the Archival Absorption of Biological Humanity|Continuity Colonization]] ## See Also [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]], [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]], [[wiki/Continuity Registry|Continuity Registry]], [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]], [[wiki/Dual Constitution of AI|Dual Constitution of AI]] ## Relationships <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], and [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Connections in this corpus - [[wiki/Kubernetes leader election|Kubernetes leader election]] is connected in the corpus with **Continuity Election**. Lease-based selection of one active leader is a technical analogue of choosing one authorized active instance. ### Additional Documented Relationships - **Continuity Election** is associated with [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]]. - **Continuity Election** is associated with [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]]. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Read First in the Wiki <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED WIKI ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - [[wiki/Activation Triage|Activation Triage]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Jurisdictional Redundancy|Jurisdictional Redundancy]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Root of Trust Succession|Root of Trust Succession]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Treaty-Backed Custody|Treaty-Backed Custody]] — supplies the related legal, policy, or governance instrument context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Data Embassy|Data Embassy]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Executable Preservation|Executable Preservation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Restoration Disclosure|Restoration Disclosure]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/State Lineage|State Lineage]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Validity Conditions of a Continuity Contract|Validity Conditions of a Continuity Contract]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. - [[wiki/World-Builder Distinction|World-Builder Distinction]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Election** within the wider system. <!-- END HUMANIZED WIKI ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **XVI. The passenger manifest** provides the narrative context for **Continuity Election**: Under that architecture there is no obvious technical ceiling that says only a handful of people could be carried. <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> ## Research Edges <!-- BEGIN HOST RESIDUAL RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Host-infrastructure integration This entry is expanded through the concrete host-side relationships and status-qualified edges below. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0457 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0458 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0459 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0460 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0461 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0462 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0463 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0464 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Jurisdictional Redundancy|Jurisdictional Redundancy]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0465 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0466 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0467 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0468 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Root of Trust Succession|Root of Trust Succession]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0469 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0470 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Treaty-Backed Custody|Treaty-Backed Custody]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-1190 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1208 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1209 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1213 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1240 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Sovereign Failure Domain|Sovereign Failure Domain]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1242 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Ring Zero|Ring Zero]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1243 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1244 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1245 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1248 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1251 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Descent vs Derivation|Descent vs Derivation]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1265 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1341 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1345 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/World Shutdown Due Process|World Shutdown Due Process]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1346 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1352 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Fork Rights|Fork Rights]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0277 — [[wiki/Activation Triage|Activation Triage]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Activation Triage.md`. - **HR-0395 — [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0416 — [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Contract.md`. - **HR-0425 — [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Custody.md`. - **HR-0438 — [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Due Process.md`. - **HR-0472 — [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Finance.md`. - **HR-0496 — [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Receivership.md`. - **HR-0504 — [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Service Level.md`. - **HR-0559 — [[wiki/Data Embassy|Data Embassy]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Data Embassy.md`. - **HR-0643 — [[wiki/Executable Preservation|Executable Preservation]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Executable Preservation.md`. - **HR-0652 — [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Exit Rights.md`. - **HR-0729 — [[wiki/Jurisdictional Redundancy|Jurisdictional Redundancy]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Jurisdictional Redundancy.md`. - **HR-0887 — [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Personal Authoritative State.md`. - **HR-0941 — [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Reconstructed Person.md`. - **HR-0976 — [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Residual Sovereign.md`. - **HR-0990 — [[wiki/Restoration Disclosure|Restoration Disclosure]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Restoration Disclosure.md`. - **HR-1003 — [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Rights.md`. - **HR-1036 — [[wiki/Root of Trust Succession|Root of Trust Succession]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Root of Trust Succession.md`. - **HR-1073 — [[wiki/State Lineage|State Lineage]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `State Lineage.md`. - **HR-1116 — [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Successor Standing.md`. - **HR-1148 — [[wiki/Treaty-Backed Custody|Treaty-Backed Custody]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Treaty-Backed Custody.md`. - **HR-1167 — [[wiki/Validity Conditions of a Continuity Contract|Validity Conditions of a Continuity Contract]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Validity Conditions of a Continuity Contract.md`. - **HR-1180 — [[wiki/World-Builder Distinction|World-Builder Distinction]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `World-Builder Distinction.md`. - **HR-1340 — [[wiki/Circles of Access|Circles of Access]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1347 — [[wiki/Continuant vs Native|Continuant vs Native]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1400 — [[wiki/Kubernetes Coordinated Leader Election|Kubernetes leader election]] `cross_threads` → this entry** — **HIGH VALUE CROSS THREAD**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Lease-based selection of one active leader is a technical analogue of choosing one authorized active instance. <!-- END HOST RESIDUAL RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RESEARCH CANDIDATES 2026-09-11 --> ### Research Candidates - **R-002148 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (9): Continuity Contract, Continuity Finance, Continuity Receivership, Data Embassy, Durable Identity, Exit Rights, Reconstructed Person, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002184 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (6): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Contract, Data Embassy, Reconstructed Person, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002186 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (6): Continuity Constitutionalism, Durable Identity, Personal Authoritative State, Restoration Disclosure, Rights, State Lineage - **R-002194 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (6): Continuity Finance, Continuity Service Level, Data Embassy, Reconstructed Person, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002248 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Sovereign Failure Domain|Sovereign Failure Domain]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Data Embassy, Jurisdictional Redundancy, Residual Sovereign, Root of Trust Succession, Treaty-Backed Custody - **R-002252 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Ring Zero|Ring Zero]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Contract, Reconstructed Person, Residual Sovereign, Rights, Validity Conditions of a Continuity Contract - **R-002254 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Exit Rights, Rights, State Lineage, Successor Standing - **R-002256 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Durable Identity, Restoration Disclosure, State Lineage, Successor Standing - **R-002258 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Custody, Continuity Finance, Continuity Service Level, Rights - **R-002264 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Due Process, Continuity Receivership, Continuity Service Level, Rights - **R-002270 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Descent vs Derivation|Descent vs Derivation]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Contract, Reconstructed Person, Rights, Successor Standing, Validity Conditions of a Continuity Contract - **R-002298 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Custody, Continuity Receivership, Durable Identity, Personal Authoritative State, Reconstructed Person - **R-002449 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Circles of Access|Circles of Access]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Contract, Reconstructed Person, Rights, Validity Conditions of a Continuity Contract - **R-002450 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Custody, Durable Identity, Exit Rights - **R-002458 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/World Shutdown Due Process|World Shutdown Due Process]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Contract, Continuity Due Process, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002460 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Custody, Continuity Finance, Continuity Receivership - **R-002463 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Continuant vs Native|Continuant vs Native]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Contract, Reconstructed Person, Rights, Successor Standing - **R-002472 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Election** and [[wiki/Fork Rights|Fork Rights]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Personal Authoritative State, Reconstructed Person, Rights, Successor Standing <!-- END HUMANIZED RESEARCH CANDIDATES 2026-09-11 -->