I grant you that Avon is suffering radiation poisoning and that quickly leaving and getting the needed medicine must rank pretty high so, no, I don't think he hung around too long after. I also admit that I like to think the Liberator came back later and offered to take her and her people to another planet

Also, Meeghat's people had survived for generations on that planet. Yes, with a drop in level of civilization. Yet she had beautifully woven clothes and is certainly of fairly high status within her own society. I think her social status would be further boodsted by the successful accomplishment of her mission; to find someone who could lauch her people's ship (note, it is HER people's ship. Not symbolic of Avon fertilizing the race; rather, he's-- if there *must* be a metaphor-- he's a fertility clinic, not a father). I think it's safe to say he did her no harm. Taking her away from the planet without knowing the nutritional needs of her people (they look human enough, but there was nothing that indicated they were lost humans, was there?) would have been potentially hazardous to her health. No signs of radiation poisoning in her, so I guess she's shelthered and adapted enough. Also in regards to the rocket... This *is* science fiction. There was a need to launch something from the ground. Meeghat's people had, presumably, been at a stage of development similiar to 20th Century Earth's when a nuclear disaster caused a rapid decline of civilization *and* a high level of background radiation. The rocket is meant to make us think of Cape Canaveral and such, not the contents of Avon's pants (wardrboe designers are so much better at that than props people). It's just a rocket.