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

<passage>:
Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn’t be so bad …if I could shoot the trouble! instead, I faced the crowd as I soared away, so I made being the best defense and so forth. of your contract—like this have deducted 13 credits from your salary for the cost of the I have a little job I know you’ll enjoy. Repair job. The Centauri hyperspace beacons from one arm of the Galaxy to the other and was sure than a beacon—must be at least a few hundred meters high. 2000 years old. Just forget about it and build a new one.” would take a year to install a new beacon—besides being too expensive—and this relic is on one of the main routes. We have ships making fifteen-light-year detours now.” Forty-four on Company Duty and My Troubles. “This department is officially called Maintenance and Repair, when it really should be called trouble-shooting. Hyperspace beacons are made to last forever—or damn close to it. When one of them breaks down, an accident, and repairing the thing is never a matter of fat paycheck in an air-conditioned office. He rambled on. “How I wish that were all it took! I would have a fleet of parts ships and junior mechanics to install them. But its not like that at all. I have a fleet of expensive ships that are equipped to mechanics, engineers, soldiers, con-men and anything else it takes to do the repairs. I have to browbeat, bribe, blackmail and bulldoze you thugs into doing a simple job. If you think you’re fed up, just think how I feel. But the ships must go through! The beacons must operate!” figuring a way to outfigure me. It was all very depressing, so I stopped for a drink, then went on to the spaceport. By the time the ship was serviced, I had a course charted. The nearest about nine days in hyperspace. To understand the importance of the beacons, you have to understand hyperspace. Not that many people do, but it is easy enough to understand -space the regular rules don’t apply. Speed and measurements are a matter of relationship, not constant facts like the fixed universe. The first ships to enter hyperspace had no place to go—and no way to even tell if they had moved. The beacons solved that problem and opened the entire universe. They are built on planets and generate punched through into hyperspace. Every beacon has a code signal as part of its radiation and represents a measurable point in hyperspace. Triangulation and quadrature of the beacons works for navigation—only it follows its own rules. The rules are complex and variable, but they are still rules that a navigator can follow. For a hyperspace jump, you need at least four beacons for an accurate fix. For long jumps, navigators use as many as seven or eight. So every beacon is important and every one has to keep operating. That is where I and the other trouble-shooters came in. We travel in well-stocked ships that carry a little bit of everything only one man to a ship because that is all it takes to operate the overly efficient repair machinery. Due to the very nature of our job, we spend most of our time just rocketing through normal space. After all, when a beacon breaks down, how do you find it? Not through hyperspace. All you can do is approach as close as you can by using other beacons, then finish the trip in normal space. This can take months, and often does. Beta Circinus beacon and ran a complicated eight-point problem through the navigator, using every beacon I could get an accurate fix on. The computer gave me a course with an estimated point-of-arrival as well as a built-in safety factor I never could eliminate from the machine. I would much rather take a chance of breaking through near some star than spend time just barreling through normal space, but apparently Tech knows this, too. They had a safety factor built into the computer so you couldn’t end up inside a star no matter how hard you tried. I’m sure there was no humaneness in this decision. They just didn’t want to lose the ship. It was a twenty-hour jump, ship’s time, and I came through in the middle of nowhere. The robot analyzer chuckled to itself and scanned all comparison with its absolute magnitude showed its distance. Not as bad as I had thought—a six-week run, give or take a few days. After feeding a course tape into the robot pilot, I strapped into the acceleration tank and went to sleep. The time went fast. I rebuilt my camera for about the twentieth time and just about finished a correspondence course in nucleonics. Most repairmen take these courses. Besides their always coming in handy, the company grades your pay by the number of specialties you can handle. All distance. this business, you learn early when and where to risk your own skin. The eye controls and dived the thing down. view. I cursed and wheeled the eye in circles, scanning the surrounding flying in every direction. I pulled the eye straight up and away and threw in the control circuit that would return it automatically to the ship. Then I went to the galley for a long, strong drink. My beacon was not only locked inside a mountain of handmade stone, but I had managed to job and one clearly designed to drive a stronger man than me to the repairman wants to make no sacrifices of any kind for his job. For this to go on a planet with a culture, it is usually built in some expressions. This is fairly easy to do when you have a machine memory to When you get enough reference phrases like this in the memory bank, the notice that he took the cash before taking off. And I had to walk into the middle of that mess and repair the thing. equipment. a lot of electronic equipment. I built the tail over a metal frame that anchored around my waist. Then I filled the frame with all the equipment I would need and began to wire the suit. horrible but effective. The tail dragged me down in the rear and gave me a duck-waddle, but that only helped the resemblance. That night I took the ship down into the hills nearest the pyramid, an out-of-the-way dry spot where the amphibious natives would never go. A little before dawn, the eye hooked onto my shoulders and we sailed straight up. We hovered above the temple at about 2,000 meters, until it wings obviously had nothing to do with our flight. But it was impressive the control in my palm at the same time. It took off straight up a bit faster than I wanted little pieces of wasn’t stopped, so it looked all right. The temple was a single “Stop!” I thundered before he got so far in that he now. I need my eyes to see and mend the Fount of Holy Waters. Once the PERSONNEL ONLY . The trusting builders counted on the sign to do the from constant polishing. the trouble. It wasn’t going to be ended I could start the water again easily enough, but there was no fuel left in the reactor. I wasn’t going to play with the fuel problem at all. It would be far easier to install a new power plant. I had one in the ship that was about a tenth the size of the ancient bucket of bolts and produced at least four times the power. Before I sent for it, I checked over the Ninety per cent of the machinery had no moving parts and had suffered no made a list of parts. The parts, the new power plant and a few other odds and ends were chuted into a neat pile on the ship. I checked all the parts by screen before they were loaded in a metal crate. In the darkest hour before dawn, the heavy-duty eye dropped the crate outside the temple and darted away without being seen. crate. They spent most of the day sweating the heavy box up through the repairs didn’t take long, though there was plenty of groaning they were waiting for. I threw the switch that started the water flowing again. There were a few minutes while the water began to gurgle down through great ruckus while I finished welding the door shut. Running through the forbid entrance to the Inner Temple forever they will let the waters flow. Now I must return—on with the ceremony!”

<question>:
What is the most time-consuming part of traveling using hyperspace?

<options>:
A Flying through regular space
B Locating enough beacons
C Filling out paperwork
D Preparing the ship for the jump

<answer>:

A