Summing Up "Star Ship"

We have to read "Star Ship" right to the end to get its point which is that the Khazaki, Janazik, is able to do something important for his Terrestrial friend, Anse, although it must irrevocably end their comradeship and blood-brotherhood - unless, maybe, Anse is widowed. (Janazik tells Anse's betrothed that it was he, not Anse, that killed her brother.)

This story could have been set in any timeline. If it is to remain in the Psychotechnic History, then it has to be set much later than is stated in the Chronology. The story's only overt links to that future history series are the Terrestrial naming system and one character invoking Cosmos. The planets Khazak and Avandar and the Galactic Coordinators are mentioned nowhere else in the series.

A future history series can nominally incorporate a large number of stories set on different planets or in different spatial regions with no overt cross-references because space-time is vast.