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

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THE STOKER AND THE STARS BY JOHN A. SENTRY from all the others, somehow. It gave a new face to the entire planet. Mac and I and some of the other crewmen went down on the field to him? Yes, I know the slings, bringing cases of machinery from their own ship. They sat atop their vehicles, lean and him— across the field to their ship and back like wild horsemen on the plains of Earth, paying us no notice. We were almost through when think he was after? at his shoulders, the battle some of those people who're writing the books about him seem to. I couldn't really describe him to and a packed airsuit on his back. The "We've got to stop him," Mac skin of his face had been dried out by ship's air, burned by ultraviolet combativeness before we had ever met any people from off Earth, even, you could hear people saying we were toughest, cruelest life-form in the Universe, unfit to mingle with the gentler wiser races in the stars, and a sure bet to steal their galaxy and corrupt it forever. Where these people got their information, I beyond Centaurus, and Sirius, and then we met the Jeks, the Nosurwey, the Lud. We tried Terrestrial know-how, except for those two. "They'll kill him. They'll kill him Jek spoke to him: "Are you entitled to wear that?" "I was at this planet in '39. I was closer to your home world the year before that," the stoker said. "I was guttering fires of a dozen planets, we dug in, we fought through the last Cope, and surrendered the remainder of the human race to the wiser, gentler races in the stars. That way, we ditch, and we were dying on Earth droves, and we retreated from the lived. That way, we were permitted itself before Baker mutinied, shot "I want to speak to your ship's captain." found me and said: wiped out like the upstarts the rest of the Universe thought us to be. When they let us keep our own solar "I signed on their ship," the stoker system and carry on a trickle of trade loudly: "What do you mean, you're "Huh?" years ago. I was a little, pudgy man with short breath and a high-pitched voice. I was a typical Earthman. We were out on a God-forsaken landing field on Mars, MacReidie and I, loading cargo aboard the Serenus "On a Jek ship." "Anybody's ship. When I get to their home world, I'll probably ship out with some people from farther on. Why not? It's honest work." MacReidie had no answer to that. Serenus had what they called an he couldn't understand what might that, except MacReidie was always a electricity would have broken any stray air down to ozone, which eats took off in the morning. The stoker had already left on the Jek ship, and it turned out he'd trained an apprentice metal and rots lungs. So the engine was better of the two interstellar freighters the human race had left. "You're bound over the border, aren't you?" But—" and other people beyond them, and things just got better for us, somehow. The trouble was the look of him. It was the look you saw in the bars back on Earth, where the veterans of the war sat and stared down into their glasses, waiting for night to alleys and have drunken fights among themselves. But he had brought that look to Mars, to the landing field, and out here there was something was going deeper into the galaxy, disquieting about it. to people. Nobody could. He just kept signing on with whatever ship with green shipmates and blue ones. One and two and three heads, tails, six legs—after all, ships are ships live on all kinds of food, if he wants to get used to it. And any nontoxic atmosphere will do, as long as there's enough oxygen in it. I don't know what he did, to make who joined the combat forces. But the war this man had fought hadn't very few of the men came back, and a fighting ship, somewhere, could. MacReidie wasn't a mumbling have kept my old captain out of that place he died in, finally, if he'd tried it. and it wasn't until we'd gotten the Serenus So, I don't know. The older I get, Mac and I even spoke to each other Daniels, the Third, had signed him I could be sure of the exact answer a bunch on the passage to Mars and the Serenus , and began it all. Serenus famous for. But I suppose it's enough to know for sure that he was the first living being ever to travel all the way around the galaxy. THE END —officers and Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction myself and he introduced himself. up with some new thought, put down his glass, and walked straight to the Earth-Mars shuttle field. He might have come from any town on Earth. Don't believe the historians too much. Don't pay too much attention to the Chamber of Commerce It was MacReidie who first found was wrong with him. He's got an old the stoker. The mark was on him, as I've said. It was the Marines that did Earth's best dying. It had to be. They were trained to be the best we had, and stars and took the war to the other side as well as any human force could ever hope to. They were always the last to leave an abandoned position. If Earth had been giving medals to members of her forces in the war, every man in the Corps would have was one of them. They were a kind of human being neither MacReidie nor I could hope to understand. "You don't know," Mac said. "It's going out to trade with his sworn enemies! Why do you suppose he I didn't know what to say. MacReidie start something?" down—do you suppose they'll stop with him? They'll kill us, and then they'll go in and stamp Earth flat! You know it as well as I do." "I don't know, Mac," I said. "Go even Mac, but he'd cause it to get "Easy! Easy—nothing's easy. I hate this life," he said in a murderous voice. "I don't know why I keep signing on. Mars to Centaurus and back, back and forth, in an old rust tub that's going to blow herself up one of these—" your Intercom volume," he said. "The stoker's jamming the circuit." and this is what I got: " Venus, by God you should of seen us! The to make things risky, the jets were ... " The crew were chuckling into their trying to cut him off. But he intercom, but it made the crew feel " He said the last part in a Master's voice. Venus ." It wasn't good, started "I Left Her Behind For You," things, the way these sessions would sometimes wind up when spacemen were far from home. But not since the war, we all seemed to realize together. may explain something. He and I reciting something, softly, under his Where stars are spun and worlds begun, And men will find them waiting. The dreams of Man and galactic span Are equal and much the same. " What was he thinking of? Make your own choice. I think I came close to knowing him, at that moment, but until human beings turn telepath, no man can be sure of another. is. And the stoker had saved the ship, and ... happening between MacReidie and the stoker, or anyone else and the to our little percentage of the ship's volume, could seem like something of the human race. It may not seem that way to you. But as long as no one began anything, we could all get and set down at the trading field on the second planet, it was the same as the other trips we'd made, and the same kind of landfall. The Lud factor for the first time that the Lud hadn't built it. It was a leftover from the old colonial human government. And the city on the horizon—men had built it

<question>:
According to the narrator, who started the inter-galactic war?

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A The Jeks
B The Lud
C The Nosurwey
D People from Earth

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D