So found out today, even if your GM has been offline for whoever long hes been gone, ours has been off for a while now, you cannot petition to get leadership.
I got the reply in an email, "We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you, however, we do not have a way to transfer the guild leadership of your guild to your character. The only option that you have to change the guild leader of your guild is if your current guild leader assigns someone as the new guild leader."
So what happens if our GM doesn't ever come back? Is there no way without him signing on and passing leadership for one of the officers to get leadership?