Disputed authority, succession, or emergency-scope conflict

Observation and scope

Observation source

Constitutional records, delegation receipts, expiry, quorum, and review evidence

Uncertainty

Must be published explicitly; CANNOT_DETERMINE is valid when evidence is insufficient.

Affected systems

Legitimacy, public administration, rights, and continuity

Lawful authority

Constitutional Review Node

Scope

Narrowly limited to the declared incident and affected services.

Operational owner

Constitutional Review Node

Communication and protection

Immediate message: State the competing claims, controlling records, interim limits, and path to lawful resolution. No faction is treated as legitimate by mere technical control.

Patefacere handoff: Patefacere freezes only specifically affected operational delegations under its own lawful process.

Privacy: Publish authority records without exposing private identity or security material.

Accessibility: Plain-language constitutional notice, machine-readable authority state, correction and appeal channels.

Sunset and handback

Review cadence: Initial review within one declared interval; public updates at material change or scheduled review.

Sunset: Emergency state expires automatically unless competent authority publishes a bounded renewal with reasons.

Handback: Competent review resolves authority, extraordinary delegation expires, all systems acknowledge handback and preserve the dispute record.

After action: Required; preserve decisions, failures, uncertainty, harms, corrections, and residual risk.

Permanent-power prohibition: True

States and boundary

• OBSERVING
• ASSESSING
• BOUNDED_RESPONSE
• DEGRADED_SERVICE
• HANDOFF_PENDING
• HANDOFF_COMPLETE
• RECOVERY
• ORDINARY_GOVERNANCE_RESTORED
• CANNOT_DETERMINE

Fictional protocol class only. No real emergency, operational capability, deployment, or current emergency authority is represented.