School passed by in a blur for Anna. The classes were quick and easy. Aside from homework, the guilds also had assignments as part of quests. The Aviation Guild was simple. There were 8 members outside of the group to schmooze with. Gassing the aircraft, filing flight logs, air traffic controlling and even airport security were all easy ongoing tasks that were always on offer from the guild. A plane or passenger would spawn in if there was not one available in the airport. Doing 5 missions would allow a member to rank up. Guilds had several ranks. They were tin, copper, bronze, silver, gold, platinum and diamond. Everyone started at tin. Bronze was locked if you did not have an active pilot's license. To become copper you needed to complete 5 missions, pass or fail. For bronze, you needed 10 successful missions and the license. Silver needed 25 successes. Gold needed 50 successes. The platinum rank was given to members that had a 75% success rate after the 100th mission. Diamond needed 100 successful missions and 3 members ranked platinum or higher to recommend them.
Guild politics were different for each guild. The Aviation Guild was seen as a lower class collection job. They were people whose job it was to transport others around or make that transportation possible. The Justice Guild was for the elite. They had crown prosecutors, public defenders, politicians, police officers of the highest rank and government officials in their ranks. You could pay a simple fee to become a member of the Aviation Guild. You had to pay a fee to the duchy's department of legal affairs in order to take the bar exam. Only if you passed would the guild consider your application. Thanks to anti-discrimination laws, they were not allowed to reject the omegas. They had no criminal records. Teachers and people in the community could be "persuaded" to write a nice endorsement of their character. They got high scores on the exam. Nothing disqualified them. It was going to be hard to get high up in the Justice Guild though. Just like the Aviation Guild, there would always be grunt work to do. Even then there would be competition. Low level people wanted the easy wins.
Looking over contracts, providing services as a justice of the peace, consulting people on legal matters and being a notary were the jobs always on offer. Alpha clients in the city did not want to be represented by omegas. They would be passed over for betas and alphas. Looking over contracts was fine as long as they agreed with the alpha who they were talking too at the time. A notary's work was really broad. A notary public of the common law is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with general financial transactions, estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business. A notary's functions are to validate the signature of a person; administer oaths and affirmations; take affidavits and statutory declarations, including from witnesses; authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents; take acknowledgments of deeds and other conveyance; provide notice of foreign drafts; provide exemplifications and notarial copies; and, to perform certain other official acts depending on the jurisdiction. Work.
Marrying people was a cool perk of being a justice of the peace. The justice of the peace typically presides over a court that hears misdemeanor cases, traffic violations, and other petty criminal infractions. The justice of the peace may also have authority over cases involving small debts, landlord and tenant disputes, or other small claims court proceedings. Proceedings before justices of the peace are often faster and less formal than the proceedings in other courts. In some jurisdictions a party convicted or found liable before a justice of the peace may have the right to a new trial before the judge of a higher court rather than an appeal strictly considered. With a guild and country that were culturally alpha supremacist, it was very rare for any of the omegas to be called up to hear cases as the judge. It was supposed to be random, but if both the plaintiff and defendant were alphas, they would appeal to have a different justice of the peace assigned. Everyone was members of both guilds. Jeff and Trish could take the written test again if they wanted. They chose not to. They did other jobs.
