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 people's enemies—and found that his betrayal Planet Stories Fall 1943. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that The hackles rose golden and stiff across Kirk's back. He said carefully, "I would like to kill the Captain and the First Officer and the Second the dim grey light into themselves, forcing line and shape out of blurred nothingness. He made no move to drop the curtain. The same landscape he had stared at since he was able to crawl by himself away from the box of heat-stones. Flat grey plain running right and left to the little curve of the horizon. Rocks on it, and 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. Kirk raised his shaggy head. The light of the yellow star they called Sun caught in the huge luminous blackness of his eyes. 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 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 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 He leaned forward to glare at Lil. "And I would so kill the Captain's kill them—all but the Captain's yellow daughter?" heat-stones." "Maybe," said Kirk heavily, "it all goes to the same place." Lil snorted. "And where's that, Smarty?" His anger forced out the forbidden words. "Where everybody says, stupid! Into the Ship." There was suddenly a lot of silence in the room. The word "Ship" hung "Don't you say things like that, Wes! You don't know." "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." Lil tossed her head. "Well neither do they." "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." Freezing and starving would take too long. There'd be too many of us if we found out, or got mad." They've kept us away from the Ship ever since the Crash , and nobody Kirk pointed. "From the west. Piruts, I think." "Yeah," said Kirk. "I'll watch out for him." He glanced back just before he let the curtain drop. The pale glow of the heat-stones picked dots of luminous blackness out of the gloom, Captain's yellow daughter." There was no conviction in her voice. The wind was freezing on Kirk's bare feet. He dropped the curtain and went across the plain. Men and youths like himself, old enough to fight, were spilling out of low doorways and forming companies on the flat ground. Kirk spotted Jakk Randl and fell in beside him. They stood with their backs to the wind, stamping and shivering, their head-hair and scant fur clouts was in his eyes. The pupils were always spread, always hot with some bitter force, always probing. He wasn't much older than Kirk. 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 He started to run, holding Randl's elbow. Grey dust blew under their feet. The drifts of crystal stones sent their sound shivering back at 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 The captain's yellow daughter, taking life into the Ship. It looked to Kirk as though the pillbox was pretty far gone. He ran down the slope with the others, slipping in the crystal drifts. Randl was spent. Kirk kept him going, thinking of the huts back there No time to think about that. Wite, the second son of the First Officer, 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 three of them would have sense enough to keep safe. Maybe they were in the pillbox. A big raid. More Piruts than he'd ever seen before. He wondered why. He wondered how so many of them had been able to get so close to the pillbox all at once, walking two or three abreast on the narrow tongue of rock under the spears and slingstones. They poured in through the gates of the stone-walled building, scattering up onto the parapet. There were slits in the rooms below and rusty metal things crouching behind them, but they weren't any good for 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 the wall. The Piruts began to slack off. Stones still whistled past Kirk's "Listen, Wes. I saw the secret way into Ship. Bend closer, and listen...." Kirk bent. He didn't move for a long time. After a while Randl's voice He looked at Kirk's face and shut up suddenly. He turned away and grunted over his shoulders, "The O.D.'s looking for you." Kirk followed. The wind was cold, howling up from the outer gullies. cannibal. That ladder made Kirk think of Pa. It was the only way for a man to get into the outer gullies from the west escarpment of the colony. He shook some of the queer heaviness out of his head, touched his forelock and said: "I'm Wes Kirk, sir. You wanted me?" He said, "Pa." them as if they were strange things and no part of him. "Kirk," he said, "this is going to be hard to explain. I've never done behind it. He licked his lips and repeated hoarsely: "I don't understand." "Here's Kirk," he said. "Where'll I put him?" It was hard to move. He'd never been tired like this before. He'd never been afraid like this, either. He didn't know what he was afraid of. father." The Officer, the bloody wall, the stars and the cold grey gullies all went away. There was nothing but darkness, and wind, a long way off. Kirk thought of Pa coming up under the wall, close to safety, close enough to touch it, and no way through. Pa and Frank and Russ, standing under the wall, looking up, and no way through. Looking up, calling to the men they knew, asking for help and getting a spear through the heart. and over. It got louder. There were weights on his arms and legs, and he couldn't throw them off. He was pressed against something. The Officer was gone. Kirk relaxed. He was shivering and covered with rime from body sweat. Somebody whistled. Pa, and the Ship with the heat-stones in it, and the Captain's yellow "That's mutiny. For God's sake, don't make things worse!" while he was dying. The Captain's yellow daughter, sneaking heat-stones

<question>:
Where did the Captain come from?

<options>:
A He is never described or heard from
B He was a defector of the Hans that commissioned the ship which has not yet set sail
C He is a Pirut that mutinied from the main settlement
D He travelled from outside of the solar system

<answer>:

A