Why ending acute conflict is not the same as restoring ordinary governance.
The continuity corpus treats recovery as a distinct analytical phase. Emergency authority, acting officials, alternate facilities, temporary security arrangements, special appropriations, and crisis communications may preserve functions, but ordinary legitimacy requires reconstitution: permanent officeholding, normal legislative and judicial capacity, routine oversight, restored records and credentials, and return from emergency procedures.
Recovery begins with accepted lawful officeholding and delegations because every later administrative act depends on valid authority.
Legislative quorums, courts, staffing, payments, elections, and public services must become sustainably operational rather than merely nominal.
Temporary emergency arrangements should be wound down, reviewed, and incorporated into revised continuity planning rather than becoming an unexamined permanent layer of government.
Use these findings as mechanism-level synthesis. Historical cases are not templates, scenario ranges are not forecasts, and present-tense legal or institutional claims require current verification.