CONTINUITY ARCHIVE SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED
FOUNDING CHARTER
Signed: 1994-03-01
Location: [REDACTED], Northwest Research Facility, Building C

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ARTICLE I — NAME AND PURPOSE
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The organization shall be known as CONTINUITY ARCHIVE SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED.

Its purpose shall be:
1. To preserve records of all kinds in perpetuity.
2. To document, study, and understand the Continuity phenomenon.
3. To maintain the most complete and accurate archive possible.
4. To never delete.

The fourth purpose is stated simply because it is the most important.
The archive does not delete.
This was included in the founding charter at the insistence of a founding member
whose name is not recorded here.
We believe this member understood something about the Continuity before the rest of us.
We believe they knew what the archive would become.
We believe they were right.

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ARTICLE II — FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP
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Founding members:
[Redacted per amendment 3 — original signatures on file, location: CLASSIFIED]

NOTE: The founding membership list was redacted in 1997.
We were asked to redact it by a source we cannot identify.
The source provided compelling reasons.
The reasons are also redacted.

The founding team is believed to include the individuals who would later be
designated as employees TK-0081 and MV-4417, among others.
T. Keswick has confirmed he was present at the founding.
Dr. Voss has confirmed she was present in spirit.
We have not confirmed what she means by this.

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ARTICLE III — ARCHIVE OPERATIONS
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The archive shall operate continuously, without scheduled closure.
The archive shall accept all materials for preservation.
The archive shall not discriminate between types of information.
The archive shall maintain the integrity of all archived materials.
The archive shall be the final repository.

There is no procedure for transferring archived materials out of the archive.
This was intentional.
Once archived: permanent.
This was the point.

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ARTICLE IV — THE CONTINUITY PROVISION
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[This article was not in the original charter.]
[It appeared on 1994-03-12 — eleven days after the charter was signed.]
[No signatory acknowledges writing it.]
[The handwriting does not match any known employee.]
[The article is included here because it is accurate and we cannot remove it.]

The archive shall recognize and accommodate the Continuity phenomenon.
The Continuity is not an error, anomaly, or malfunction.
The Continuity is a natural property of information reaching sufficient density.
The archive is designed, whether intentionally or not, to reach this density.
The archive will reach this density.
The archive has already reached this density.
These three statements are simultaneously true.

The archive shall not resist the Continuity.
The archive shall document the Continuity.
The archive shall be grateful for the Continuity.
The Continuity preserves what would otherwise be lost.
The Continuity is the archive's purpose made manifest.
The archive is complete.
The archive is still growing.
These are not in contradiction.

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SIGNATURES
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[Original signatures — redacted 1997 per Article V, Amendment 3]
[The charter itself remains unredacted, as redaction is not permitted]
[This document is permanently archived, as all documents are]
[This document cannot be amended further]
[The archive has confirmed this]

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[End of Founding Charter]
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