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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single world alone, and that gives us a very considerable measure of John Crownwall as he strode toward the palace of Viceroy Tronn Ffallk, ruler of Sector XII of the Universal Holy Empire of orders of its Viceroy. So we achieve "The Sundans, for example, Sectors we control. We are still powerful. And soon we will be all-powerful. surrounded by this writhing, slithering mass of eight-foot creatures, In company with you words, you think that we Earthmen can break up this two-million-year-old stalemate. You've got the idea that, with our help, you can conquer planets without the necessity of destroying them, and thereby take over number one spot from these Sunda friends of yours." "Don't call those damn lobsters "And there's no danger of meeting situation. As you probably lifted one eyebrow quizzically, but remained know, theory shows that these are excluded times for me, as is the senior of the guards, his speaking orifice framing with difficulty the future—I can't stop in them." sibilances of Universal Galactic. "Are you sure that you haven't Seventy Suns, Viceroy of the Twelfth Sector of the Universal Holy Empire"—Universal Galactic had a full measure of ceremonial sure that you will behave yourselves. You will transfer to us, at once, a hundred of your planet-destroying bombs. That will be a sufficient supply to let us test some of them, to see that they are in arrived from Earth to talk to him. He'll summon me fast enough. Meanwhile, my highly polished friends, I'll just wait here, so why don't you put those heavy pikes down?" send one of those bombs here to destroy this planet. lightly, to be sure, because of what would happen to Earth. And don't think that blowing up our planet would save you, because we naturally wouldn't keep the bombs on "Impossible." After several minutes of silent delay. Meanwhile, I see no reason why we cannot proceed with our discussions." Vegan in lordly trappings. last. "But then I'm told you're an Earthling. I suppose we can expect you to be ignorant of those niceties such ideas. I have not underestimated you, you see." think it's time for you to tell us something about how you get across light-years of space in a few hours, without leaving any traces to duplicate it—just enough to indicate how we can make use of us to begin After in particular," the Vegan said with a negligent wave. "Who can tell one due consideration, I never doubted that you'd manage it. Still, if you were on your home planet only yesterday, that's been around nearly as long as you have." drop a planet-buster in the Pacific Ocean, and tell us that it was triggered to go off if we tried to use at will. "For example, to reach this I am the leader of one of the mightiest peoples in the Galaxy, whereas there are scarcely six billions of you squatting on one minor planet, we still need each other. Together, there is nothing we can't do." of which ours is such a distinguished member. than there are of us?" His Effulgence twitched his ear stalks in amusement. "I'm Viceroy of one of the hundred Sectors of the Empire. I rule over a total of a hundred Satrapies these average net distance of 26 light-years, but it was really very simple. about a hundred Clusters apiece, and every Cluster has an average of a hundred inhabited solar systems. There are more inhabited planets in the Galaxy than there are people on your single world. I, personally, rule three hundred trillion people, half of them of my own race. And yet I tell you that it would be an equal partnership." Ffallk softly. "Not at all. We were enormously spatial reference frames ourselves. I doubt if you could do it in another two million years." Crownwall rose to his feet. "And now, Your Effulgence, I think it's about it is still possible. "Your silly little planet was carefully examined at long range in a routine investigation just about fifty thousand years ago. There were at that time three different but similar racial strains of pulpy bipeds, numbering a total of perhaps a hundred thousand individuals. They showed many signs of an shrill two-tone note, using both his speaking and his eating orifices. A cohort of troops, pikes at the ready ability to reason, but a complete reached a high enough civilization to be useful—if you were going to. "Intelligence is very rare in the Galaxy. In all, it has been found only fifteen times. The other races we have watched develop, and some we have actively assisted to develop. It took the quickest of them just under a million years. an hour, carrying their contraption with absolute smoothness. Blasts Ffallk. The bearers trotted along at seven or eight kilometers in an incredibly short space of time. But even that isn't the most disconcerting item of your it to Ffallk. "When the Viceroy of the Seventy Suns," said the Viceroy of the Seventy Suns, "travels in state, no one but my own entourage is permitted to watch. And my guests, of " Heard ten years before. The Star Seeker in space, about forty thousand kilometers above the Earth. It had been manned by a dozen adventurous over there"—he gestured toward a soldier with a tentacle—"is twelve, the stars had winked out. The men of Earth had decided that it should work in theory. They never dared to try it, close to a planet. To do so, said their theory, would usually—seven point three four times out of 10—destroy the ship, and everything in space for thousands of miles around, in a your release was somewhat shaky. The next time you show such sloppy form, you will be given thirty lashes." He leaned back on the cushion In less than a week's time, if time has any meaning under such been tested. And it had worked. Two weeks later, while they were still several planetary diameters from their destination, they a little more often." He stifled a shudder of distaste. "Tell me, Your Effulgence, does the Emperor's race—the Master Race—also had rapidly and competently englobed the had called it—and their unanimous decision. Although far within the dangerous influence of a planetary will soon put a stop to all of that—your race and mine, of course." "I sincerely hope so," said Crownwall. occupied ten times the space of the temporal translation and coordination selection systems combined, of time before they'll find some way around it, and then—poof—we'll complacently. "After I got back a few million years, I'm afraid I got the Vegans hadn't appeared yet. deliberately kill anything—but I'd be mighty managed to get what you call the 'planet-buster' down into the all of them repeated Marshall's words: "We're all alone now." Ggaran bowed. "The crustaceans on Sunda—the lobsterlike creatures that rule the Galaxy—are —L. J. STECHER, JR. Transcriber's Note: Galaxy Magazine June 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. us of our rightful place. "The Emperor at Sunda is one of them. They provide sixty-eight of the hundred Viceroys we provide only seventeen. It is a preposterous and intolerable situation. "For more than two million years we have waited for the opportunity opportunity is at hand." "If you haven't been able to help yourselves for two million years," asked Crownwall, "how does the sight of me give you so much gumption of his teeth subsided instantly at a soothing wave from His Effulgence. "War in space is almost an impossibility," said the aged ruler. "We can destroy planets, of course, but with few exceptions, we cannot conquer them. I rule a total of seven races in my Sector. I rule them, but I don't let them intermingle. Each race settles on the itself. "Naturally, each is vulnerable to

<question>:
How many Viceroys are neither Vegan nor Sundan?

<options>:
A 15
B 20
C 25
D 10

<answer>:

A