Innermost
Innermost adjective - Situated or occurring farthest within.
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Outermost
Outermost adjective - Most distant from a center.
Usage example: the outermost ring of listeners had trouble hearing the concert
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The innermost story is of a 19th century sailor in the Pacific and the outermost is of a Hawaiian tribesman in a distant post-apocalyptic future.
Source: Nested Story -
Subverted in Hellstar Remina, as the titular Planet Eater Cosmic Horror may eat it first, but then proceeds in a few weeks to eat every other planet in turn (including Jupiter, despite it being much larger than Remina), from outermost to innermost
And then it gets to Earth
Source: Pluto Is Expendable -
The three active defenses are lasers (innermost), counter-missiles (middle), and ECM (outermost).
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