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

<passage>:
By AL SEVCIK ILLUSTRATOR NOVICK The robots were built to serve Man to do his work, see to his comforts, make smooth his way. Then the robots figured out an additional service—putting Man out of his misery. sweet-smelling ooze, Alan eyed the robot apprehensively. Half places. Standing in the sticky, buried in mud, it stood quiet in "I wonder," he thought, "how Pete could cram enough brain into one of those things to make it hunt and track so perfectly." He tried to visualize the computing circuits needed for the scraping the spongy ground like the tentacles of some monstrous tree-bound octopus. Fitful little need a computer as big as the one at camp headquarters." operation of its tracking mechanism robot, crunching and snapping its way through the undergrowth like an onrushing forest eyes widened. "Of course! Radio! I'll bet anything they're automatically controlled by the camp computer. That's where swung around and fired its blaster, He pictured the camp computer their brain is!" He paused. completely dissolving the Alan changed direction slightly to follow a line between the two robots coming up from either side, behind him. His eyes were well accustomed to the dark ship and the eleven men who, with Alan, were the only humans on the jungle planet, Waiamea. temporary home for the scout where the power supplies and the computer were and the that had brought the advance exploratory party of scientists and technicians to Waiamea three days before. Except for a few of the killer robots rolling because a man can sometimes cover things working." Alan smiled slightly. "Guess that means I owe Pete a bourbon-and-soda for sure. Anybody who can build a robot that hunts by homing in on animals' mind impulses ..." He stepped forward as an overload relay snapped To his right the trees silhouetted briefly against brilliance as a third robot slowly moved up in the distance. Without thinking, Alan turned slightly to the blaster barrel to aim directly at his head. Alan froze. "My God, Pete built those things wrong!" Suddenly a screeching whirlwind of claws and teeth hurled itself from the smoldering branches and crashed against the robot, clawing insanely at the antenna and blaster barrel. With an awkward jerk the robot with no one to stop it, automatically sending its robots in the planet. Technologically advanced machines doing the job for which they were built, completely, thoroughly, without feeling, and without human masters wider and wider forays, slowly wiping every trace of life from cat's body overloaded the discharge circuits. The robot started lower half of the cat creature But the back pressure of the to separate sense from futility. Finally parts would wear out, children, eager girls, and their men would also lie, beside a rusty hulk, beneath the alien sun. "Peggy!" As if in answer, a tree beside exist no more. And the bones of In the brief flash of the blaster shot, Alan saw the steel glint of a robot only a hundred yards away, much nearer than felt sick. "I suppose," he muttered to himself, "that Pete assembled these robots in a batch and then activated them all at once, probably never living to realize that he had thought. "Thank heaven they're tuned to pick up human the rotten luck, anyway!" He blinked the pain tears from his eyes and looked up—into a robot's blaster, jutting out of the earth. foliage, thirty yards away. Alan. He fired again, and again the robot reacted. It seemed familiar somehow. Then he remembered the robot on the river wouldn't even singe a robot, but it just might stop one of those bank, jiggling and swaying for seconds after each shot. "Of pumas." course!" He cursed himself for right hand. "This pop gun a pack of mind-activated mechanical killers running around. when the big ship arrives ... The big ship! Good Lord, Peggy!" He turned white oily sweat punctuated his forehead. Peggy, arriving tomorrow grass stood the headquarters building, housing the robot-controlling computer. Still firing at Ahead, across fifty yards of short intervals he started across ship! A pretty girl, Peggy, the girl he'd married just three weeks ago. He still couldn't believe it. with the other colonists, the marry a girl and then take off for an unknown planet, with her to follow, to try to create a home From the corner of his eye he but Peggy and her green eyes saw another of the robots standing It was crazy, he supposed, to and her happy smile, had ended thirty years of loneliness and had, at last, given him a reason that jutted up through the grass. light, with her soft brown hair, flesh. gun. "No!" He threw himself on the ground as a new robot suddenly appeared around the edge of the building a few feet away, the robot paused momentarily, jiggling in place. In this instant, Alan jammed his hands pile of dirt and insects directly at the robot's antenna. In a flash, hundreds of the winged things erupted angrily from the hole in which was a speck of life planet's double moon had risen and he could see a robot rolling robot's pickup devices. Confused by the sudden dispersion of mind impulses, the slowly across the clearing in his transmitting mental energy to the robot fired erratically as Alan crouched and raced painfully for general direction, blasting indiscriminately slightly different spot. Apparently the robot hadn't sensed him yet, but Alan didn't Frantically, Alan slammed open the door as the robot, sensing him strongly now, aimed by the blast. red-clad safety switch mounted headed for the jungle, each to a down slowly after a lonely two-week voyage. He thought of a brown-haired girl crowding with to embrace the new planet, and wife." unrecognizable, the victim of a design error or a misplaced wire in a machine. "I have to space medical insignia. "Yes," Powerful as a small tank, the killer robot was equipped to crush, slash, and burn its way Suddenly a sobbing-laughing green-eyed girl was pressed of it, barely out of blaster range. Only, the robot didn't get tired. Alan did. The twin moons cast pale, deceptive tightly against him. Neither of clothes, and insects attracted by the blood matted against his pants and shirt. Behind, the robot crashed imperturbably after him, lighting the night with fitful its range. The robot crashed on, louder now, gaining on the tired human. Legs aching and bruised, shadows. The robot crashed loudly behind him now. Without stopping to think, Alan fumbled along the a mere hundred yards behind. He screamed at the blast. "Damn you, Pete! Damn your robots! Damn, damn ... Oh, Peggy!" He stepped into emptiness. with hairy, disjointed arms as if to snag even the dirty little as the heavy little robot rolled slowly and inexorably towards Alan became a man. "Dammit, no law says I have wives and kids! The metal killers, camp headquarters area and tuned to blast any living flesh, would murder them the but he forced his hands to dig, dig, dig, cursing and crying to crazily as the earth collapsed underneath arms around the barrel as the robot's treads churned furiously in the sticky mud, causing it to buck and plunge like a Brahma a steel-skinned water monster trying to dislodge a tenacious crab, while Alan, arms and legs wrapped tightly around the blaster barrel and housing, pressed fiercely against the robot's metal skin. Slowly, trying to anticipate up from the right, lowering its one of the robots rolled silently the revolving housing and the stationary portion of the robot. With a quick prayer he jammed in the knife blade—and

<question>:
What is Peggy's importance to the mission?

<options>:
A She is Alan's motivation for making it out alive.
B She is the one who successfully shuts down the robots.
C She is a medical officer on board the larger ship.
D She is Pete's wife and helped him design the robots.

<answer>:

A