Domain application preprint extending the continuity burden framework from transit missions to permanent extraterrestrial settlement. Introduces institutional continuity burden as a distinct construct: the cumulative cost borne by a settlement when operational knowledge, relational context, and cultural memory must be reconstructed at each crew rotation. Identifies five habitation-specific failure modes of stateless AI: institutional knowledge evaporation, crew transition psychological discontinuity, cross-rotation health tracking gaps, base culture erosion, and ground-control situational awareness degradation. Proposes three architectural extensions to CAMA: group-private memory partitioning (settlement/crew/individual tiers), a three-phase crew transition protocol, and a tiered ground-communication governance framework with emergency override provisions. Draws evidence from ISS crew handovers, Antarctic winter-over psychology, and U.S. Navy rotational crew data. Paper 2 of 4 in the Applied Persistent Memory Series.
Angela Reinhold (Fri,) studied this question.