# Continuity Facility **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Infrastructure / Custody **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in regulated hosting and long-duration preservation ## Definition A **Continuity Facility** is a physical or virtual operating environment organized to preserve, authenticate, execute, or transfer continuity-critical state under defined custody, security, service, and succession rules. ## Continuity Significance The term makes the hosting site legally visible. A facility may include storage, compute, energy, cooling, networking, keys, identity services, recovery capacity, and an accountable operator; none of those components alone establishes personhood or continuity. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Regulated data centers, archives, disaster-recovery sites, and sovereign clouds are present-day analogues. No reviewed regime designates a facility for running post-biological persons. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Regulated Continuity Hosting|Regulated Continuity Hosting]] · [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] · [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]]