A collection of sketches of CSG related stuff, adding and revamping some of their lore.
First sketch is a chimeran attendant conversing with a SAI hologram avatar.
There are two types of constructs within the CSG, SAI (Systems AI) and PAI (portable AI, i.e the common sapient robot) SAI were created first, and are essentially the rulers of the CSG. They're the big AI which inhabits a giant building type. Outside of their relative size, SAI hardware takes up rooms, while a PAI are small enough to operate in human size space, they are very different on a functional level. SAI sapience is natively cumulative and emergent. They're a complex computer system made of specialized hardware and software which when put together has the possibility to develop sapience. Keyword here is possibility, not all attempts at creating a SAI is successful (it actually has a high failure rate).
PAI on the other had are basically sapient code. To make a PAI just copy their code onto a suitable hardware and that's it, you've got a PAI. There existence is a fluke, some SAI was messing around with programs capable of editing their own programming, and by shear accident it resulted in what would become the base code for all PAI.
So unlike SAI which are all made individually one system at a time, PAI are all copies of an original program.
A Little Bit on the CSG
CSG operates a bit more like feudal society than a democratic state we'd be familiar with today. The CSG is loosely split into various domains each governed by a SAI administrator which governs the region as both lord and custodian. The CSG doesn't have definitive borders between domains, what is and isn't in a domain is determined by by a SAI's ability to actually oversee it which functionally is the size of their own communication networks. So think more like fuzzy grey zones than definitive lines. I was exploring ideas for banners and crests, which admins may wish to identify themselves with, but it feels a bit too medieval and on-the-nose for my liking.
The last is a drawing of some OC, particularly a character that existed in my head for a while whose design i'm still fiddling with. Jackrabbit, the mech is a man-out-of-time type character, they were created during the earliest years of the CSG, they were shut down for centuries until accidentally woken up far into the future were everything has changed. This is jackrabbits first time interacting with an alien or a post-human.
