Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
THRALLS of the ENDLESS NIGHT By LEIGH BRACKETT The Ship held an ancient secret that meant life to the dying cast-aways of the void. Then Wes Kirk revealed the secret to his The hackles rose golden and stiff across Kirk's back. He said carefully, families." child. She added sharply, "Besides, that's fool's talk, Jakk Randl's talk, and only gets the sucking-plant." Between the fields and the gullies there were huts like his own, sunk into the earth and sodded tight. A lot of huts, but not as many as there had been, the old ones said. The Hans died, and the huts were empty, and the wind and the earth took them back again. Beyond the Hansquarter, just where the flat plain began to rise, were the Engineers. Not many of them any more. You could see the dusty lumps where the huts had been, the tumbled heaps of metal that might have dirt floor. Kirk shifted his head forward to shut out the sound of them The huts of the Engineers were larger than those in the Hansquarter. The huts of the Officers were not much larger than the Engineers', but there were more of them and they climbed higher up the grey slope. Five, nearly six hands of them, with the Captain's metal-roofed place highest of all. Highest and nearest, right under the titanic shape lifting jagged against the icy stars from the crest of the ridge. The Ship. Kirk's voice was soft in his thick throat. "I would like to kill them," "Yah!" cried a shrill voice over his shoulder. "All but the Captain's yellow daughter!" Kirk spun angrily around. Lil, next below himself, danced back out of her Kirk's big heavy chest swelled. "Ma," he said, "you make that brat shut up or I'll whale her, anyhow." Ma Kirk looked at him. "Your Pa's still big enough to whale you, young man! Now you stop it, both of you." "All right," said Kirk sullenly. He squatted down, holding his hands "Maybe," said Kirk heavily, "it all goes to the same place." "Where everybody says, stupid! Into the Ship." There was suddenly a lot of silence in the room. The word "Ship" hung the door and back to her son. "It's what everybody says. Why else would they guard the Ship the way they do? We can't even get near the outside of it." "Not when we can see 'em, no. Of course not. But how do we know they haven't got ways of getting into the Ship that don't show from the plain? Jakk says a lot goes on that we don't know about." He got up, forcing his belief at them with his big square hands. "There must be something in the Ship that they don't want us to have. Something valuable, something they want to keep for themselves. What else could it be but heat-stones and maybe dried meat?" "We don't know, Wes! The Ship is—well, we shouldn't talk about it. Kirk snorted. "You women know so much. If they let the shags or the They've kept us away from the Ship ever since the Crash , and nobody Nerves crackled icily all over Kirk's skin. But there wasn't any need Kirk pointed. "From the west. Piruts, I think." Captain's yellow daughter." Jakk Randl and fell in beside him. They stood with their backs to the Randl nudged Kirk's elbow. "Look at 'em," he said, and coughed. He was bitter force, always probing. He wasn't much older than Kirk. Kirk looked up the hill. Officers were running from the huts below the gaunt, dead Ship. They didn't look so different from the Hans, only they were built a little taller and lighter, less bowed and bunchy in the shoulders, quicker on their feet. Kirk stepped behind Randl to shield him from the wind. His voice was "Is it true, Jakk? Do you know? Because if they are...." Kirk looked up. Someone was standing at the doorway of the Captain's hut. Someone tall and slender and the color of the Sunstar from head to foot. "I saw her," said Randl hoarsely. "She was carrying heat-stones into the Ship." Kirk's pupils shrank to points no warmer nor softer than the tip of his knife. He smiled, almost gently, looking up the hill. The captain's yellow daughter, taking life into the Ship. It was a big raid. Kirk saw that when he scrambled up out of the last gully, half-carrying the wheezing Randl. The Piruts had come up the piling up their dead on the swept grey stone. They were using shags again. They drove the lumbering beasts on into the hail of stones and thrown spears from the pillbox, keeping low behind them, and then climbing on the round hairy bodies. It took was signalling for double time. Kirk ran faster, his ears twitching furiously as they sifted the flying echoes into some kind of order. Pa hadn't been alone, of course. Frank and Russ went with him. The He wondered how so many of them had been able to get so close to the downstroke of his loaded sap, and kicked the body out of the way. He said, "Wonder how they got so close, so fast?" "Some trick." Randl laughed suddenly. "Funny their wanting the Ship as Randl's narrow shoulders twitched. "Near as we know, their legend is the same as ours. Something holy in the Ship, sacred and tabu. Only difference is they want to get it for themselves, and we want to keep the wall. joined the shoulder. Kirk could see the bright blood beating up through his fingers. He said, "Jakk, I'll get the sawbones...." "It's up to you, Wes. You're the only one that really knows about the Ship. You'll do better than I would, anyhow. You're a fighter. You carry it on, so the Hans can live. Promise." Kirk nodded. He couldn't say anything. The heat was dying in Randl's eyes. "Listen, Wes. I saw the secret way into Ship. Bend closer, and for the scavenger rats and the living shags who didn't mind turning cannibal. That ladder made Kirk think of Pa. It was the only way for a man to get Kirk knew. The knowledge leaped through him. It was strange, to feel a "Kirk," he said, "this is going to be hard to explain. I've never done He helped to lay his father down. He'd seen bodies before. He'd handled them, fighting on the pillbox walls. But never one he'd known so long, one he'd eaten and slept and wrestled with. The thick arm that hauled him out of bed this morning, the big hands that warmed the baby against understand! I had to do it." Looking up, calling to the men they knew, asking for help and getting a "I'll understand, all right." Kirk's voice was a hoarse, harsh whisper that came out by itself and wouldn't be stopped. "I'll understand about Pa, and the Ship with the heat-stones in it, and the Captain's yellow daughter getting fat and warm while my sisters freeze and go hungry. I'll understand, and I'll make everybody else understand, too!" the wind. "Listen, you men! Do you know what the Officers are doing up there in the Ship they won't let us touch?" There was an uneasy stirring among the Hans, a slipping aside of luminous black eyes. The Officer shut his jaw tight. He stepped in close to Kirk. "Rot, is it? Jakk Randl knew. He saw with his own eyes and he told me into...." Two of the men nodded and took Kirk away down a flight of stone steps.

<question>:
What do we learn about the relationship of the Ship to the Hans?

<options>:
A The Ship is only a legend of the Hans and not a real place
B The Hans people originated from those that first landed on the ship
C The Ship was carrying heat crystals that allowed the Hans to survive winter
D The Ship is supported on the Hans resources

<answer>:

D