Look up the word elite and than highest, both are not the same meaning.
Elite is based of better quality, highest is the incomparable level.
Yes, you're still a fool
First you said elite is the best, now you're saying based of better quality.
1. You're starting to contradict yourself.
2. If elite means best, as you yourself originally claimed, and the title is elite officer, then it means, of all the officers, Vergo is among the highest. The executives are also officers, and are described as the top of the officers, meaning that they are also among the highest. Using your original definition of elite, elite officer still ranks in equally with executive officer.
3. Using your brand new definition of elite, which means of better quality, the same can still be said. Elite officer means the best quality when it comes to officers, better than all of the others. An executive officer is among the top, better than all the others, making it equal with elite officer.
4. There is nothing higher than elite. Elite means at the very top. Because Vergo is an elite officer, that means that when it comes to officers, he is at the very top, there are no officers above him. The Executives are officers, so they are also not above him.
5. Definition of elite, as you requested to be looked up
noun
1.
a select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities.
The group is the officers. Vergo is a member of the select part of that group(officers being the group) that is superior to the rest, meaning that when it comes to officers, he's the highest you can be. An Executive officers is described as the top of the officers, yet another way the definition of the word show that an elite officer and an executive officer are on equal standing rank-wise.
Every way you slice it, Vergo is equal in rank to the Executives.
I'm curious, anyone else want to chip in here? I see quite a few people viewing, and I wonder what your outlook on this "Elite officer is/isn't equal to an executive officer" thing is.