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

<passage>:
THE STARBUSTERS transiting the constellations in a disreputable from the ship herself when the ship emerged from hyper space. GORMAN SPACE ADMIRAL COMMANDING STOP END MESSAGE END MESSAGE END just a swarm of innocuous seeming planetoids ... the first explorable worlds that they had neared in this universe. Strike decided to heave to and examine their find. Ivy wanted samples and though no one said it in so many words ... no one was anxious for another encounter with the rapacious Eridans. With typically human adaptiveness they had sublimated their fear of the unknown space in which they found close at hand to probe. Anthropoid inquisitiveness prevailed. "Warp!" turned on his stool to survey the small dance floor. The music and the subdued lights made him think of Ivy Hendricks. He really wanted to see her again. It had been a long time since that memorable flight when they had worked together to pull Admiral Gorman's flagship Atropos out of a tight spot on a perihelion run. Ivy was good to work with ... good to be around. But there was apparently more to this transfer than just Ivy pulling wires to see him again. Things were tense in the System since Probe Fleet skeeterboats had discovered a race of group-minded, non-human Only CSN Intelligence knew that the Eridans were warlike ... and that they were strongly suspected of having interstellar flight.... So, reflected Strike, the transfer of the Cleopatra warship. The in no other. That's the way Strike ran his crew, and that's the way the peremptorily. Here was something, apparently, of a family matter. "Well, I can't see anything to worry about, Skipper," she said when he had explained. "I should think you'd be glad of a chance to see Ivy again." Hendricks has cooked up for Lover-Girl, and you know the old carp likes to be treated with respect." He affected a very knowing expression. "Besides, we shouldn't be gallivanting around testing Ivy's electronic eyelash-curlers when the Eridans are likely to be swooshing around old bridge." "What time do you want to lift ship?" "0900 hours." over. Welders and physicists, naval architects and shipfitters, all mute dismay. They had nothing to say about it... Ivy Hendricks rose from her desk as Strike came into her Engineering Office. There was a smile on her face as she extended her hand. very, very competent. "I've missed you, Ivy." Strike wasn't just being polite, either. Then he grinned. "Lover-Girl's missed you, too. There never has been an Engineering Officer that could get the performance out of her cranky hulk the way you used to!" "It's a good thing," returned Ivy, still smiling, "that I'll be back at Cob and Celia Graham burst noisily into the room and the greetings began again. Ivy, as a former member of the Cleopatra's crew, was one "And why was the Cleopatra chosen?" added Celia curiously. "Well, I'll make it short," Ivy said. "We're going to make a hyper-ship out of her." "Hyper-ship?" Cob was perplexed. "Golly!" Celia Graham was wide-eyed. "I always thought of hyperspace as "I'll answer that," offered Strike, "Lover-Girl's a surge circuit monitor, and it's a safe bet this operation takes plenty of power." He looked over to Ivy. "Am I right?" "Right on the nose, Strike," she returned. Then she broke into a wide smile. "Besides, I wouldn't want to enter an alien cosmos with anyone through from the Proxima transsender ... they're under attack!" the group-mind.... He heard himself saying sharply into Ivy's communicator: "See to it that my ship is fueled and armed for space within three hours!" "Hold on, Strike!" Ivy Hendricks intervened, "What about the tests?" "I'm temporarily under Research and Development command, Ivy, but Regulations say that fighting ships cannot be held inactive during wartime! The can have your gear jerry-rigged in three hours, you can come along and test it when we have the chance. Otherwise the hell with it!" Strykalski's face was dead set. "I mean it, Ivy." "All right, Strike. I'll be ready," Ivy Hendricks said coolly. Exactly three hours and five minutes later, the newly created hyper-ship that was still Old Aphrodisiac lifted from the ramp outside then she was gone into the galactic night. rather dryly that it was likely to be the former, since Space Admiral Cleopatra or her crew. Ivy Hendricks joined them after stowing her gear, and when Whitley asked her opinion, she agreed with Strike. Her experiences with Gorman "From the Admiral, sir," the voice in the interphone said, "Shall I read it?" "Just give me the dope," ordered Strike. "The Admiral orders us to quote make a diversionary attack on the planet of 40 Eridani C II unquote," said the squawk-box flatly. rode the curvature of space toward "No, sir. The density index indicates spacecraft. High value in the chlorine lines...." "Eridans!" cried Ivy. "Shift into second-order! We'll have to try and run their net!" "Communications!" called Strike. speed!" ready to fight his ship if need be ... and against lop-sided odds. But them." "Yes, Captain." Strike turned to Ivy Hendricks. "Let's get back to the bridge, Ivy. It's going to be a hell of a rough half hour!" As they turned to go, all the pin-points of light that were the stars ship. They were in second-order flight again, and traveling above light the alien fleet. Old Aphrodisiac readied herself for war. Like a maddened bull terrier, the old monitor charged at the Eridan atmosphere grew tense as the Tellurian warship drove full at the spaceships. The soft quivering bulk of it throbbed with excitement as right to conquest. mentality that rested secure on its home world, the Eridans lacked the vicious will to live that drove the Tellurian warship and her crew. But space and leathery aliens died, their black ships burst asunder by the Cleopatra alive.... "We're caught, Ivy!" Strike shouted to the girl over the noises of battle. "She can't stand much more of this!" Cob was screaming at the gun-pointers through the open communicator ahead! Hit 'em again!..." Ivy stumbled across the throbbing deck to stand at Strykalski's side. "The hyper drive!" she yelled, "The hyper drive!" It was a chance. It was the only chance ... for Lover-Girl and Ivy and Cob and Celia ... for all of them. He had to chance it. "Ivy!" he called over his shoulder, "Check with Engineering! See if the thing's hooked into the surge circuit!" She struggled out of the flying bridge and down the ramp toward the " Try it! " Ivy shouted back. Strykalski lurched from his chair as another ray caught the ship for an A movement of the ship threw him to the deck. He struggled to his hyper drive's warp field. With a prayer on his lips, he slapped at the space ... and the danger of the questing Eridans ... that kept one or people, parts of an intricately technological culture. Their ship space?" Ivy looked out of the port and back with a shudder. "I hope so, Strike. I hope so." They fell silent, seeking comfort in each other's presence. alien space toward the spot where 40 Eridani C existed on the other Ivy suggested that since the Cleopatra and her crew were no part of

<question>:
Why did the ship go to hyperspace?

<options>:
A Because Cob gave the order
B Because Gorman appointed them to the experiment
C Because they needed time to fix the drive
D Because Ivy requested the ship for the experiment

<answer>:

C