 What likely happens after the story ends?
He touched the pencil-line scar behind his ear where the cylinder was buried, marveling at the power stored there, power to fling him from earth to this fourth planet of the Centaurian system in an instant. These are the undesirables, the incorrigibles, the nonconformists from the sixth planet. Your body will cease to exist, almost as soon as those of the sixth planet peoples. And this is contrary to the greatest law of all—that an entity, once in existence, can never cease to exist." It has to do with what comes after physical existence, not with existence itself. To do so changes the most basic structure of nature."
 Stinson eventually brings his friends to live on the planet with him
 Sybtl and Stinson get together and Stinson forgets about his prior missions  Stinson and Sybtl are re-introduced into the web-footed community  Sybtl becomes upset with Stinson and makes sure he does not return  Stinson eventually brings his friends to live on the planet with him