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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THE GIANTS RETURN By ROBERT ABERNATHY Earth set itself grimly to meet them with Quest Quest III Quest I , launched toward Arcturus and the Quest III Quest III the most hopeful of the expeditions—and its captain had been a good friend of Llud's, nine hundred years ago.... He growled, "What happened to him?" Quest III's crew. It was a subdued excitement men and women, they the same racial characteristics possessed by those aboard the Quest III lie at the long journey's end. For the Quest III was coming home Quest III's a full cross-section of the vessel, had been at first a fuel hold. At the voyage's beginning eighty per cent of the fifteen-hundred-foot cylinder had been engines and fuel but as the immense stores were out from its original cramped quarters. Now the interstellar ship was little more than a hollow shell. sighted Earth." A feverish buzz arose the captain gestured for silence and went on, were forgotten and exaltation prevailed. Earth. Llud nodded curt approval, remarking, "Probably we'll be intercepted before we get that far." Quests returned successful, or if they returned at all. And we don't know what changes have taken place on Earth. It's possible—not likely, though—that something has happened to break civilization's continuity to the point where our expedition has been forgotten altogether." Quest III's Earth years—though physically he was only forty now, ten years older than when the voyage had begun. That was the foreshortening along the Quest III in interstellar flight while years and decades had raced by on the home world. expedition, a segment of his life and of history. He might add that to the ship's official log and its collections of scientific data, as a report to whatever powers might be on Earth now—if such powers were still interested. shortly after leaving Procyon, end of the first leg of the trip. He confident than he knew it was now. "One light-day out from Procyon, the thirty-third day by ship's time since leaving Earth. the size of Jupiter, and like Jupiter utterly unfit to support a colony. "Our hopes were dashed—and I think all of us, even remembering the Centaurus Expedition's failure, hoped more than we cared to admit. If Procyon had possessed a habitable planet, we could have returned after an absence of not much over twenty years Earth time. "It is cheering to note that the crew seems only more resolute. We go on to Capella comes there, a century will have passed before we can return to Earth friends, relatives, all the generation that launched the Quest ships remote and foreign to him now. The fanfares of departure must still "We face the unpleasant realization that what was feared is probably true—that worlds such as the Sun's are a rare accident, and that we may complete our search without finding even one new Earth. "It makes no difference, of course we cannot betray the plan.... one world in all the Universe. Certainly the building of this ship and its two sisters, the immense expenditure of time and labor and energy stores that went into them, left Earth's economy drained and exhausted. Only once in a long age does mankind rise to such a selfless and transcendent effort—the effort of Egypt that built the pyramids, or the war efforts of the nations in the last great conflicts of the twentieth century. Quests . Perhaps our effort will prove as futile as pyramid-building, less practical than orgies of slaughter to reduce pressure.... In any case, it would be impossible to transport very many people to other stars longing.... Quest III has reached its furthest point from along the Milky Way. Omega Centauri is twenty thousand light years away.... Quest III could achieve a velocity that would take us there without dying of senility of aging too greatly. It would be a one-way journey—even if enough fuel remained, there would be little point in returning to Earth after more than forty thousand years. By then our civilization certainly, and perhaps the human race itself, would have perished from memory. "That was why the planners limited our voyage, and those of the other Quests , to less than a thousand years Earth time. Even now, according to the sociodynamic predictions made then, our civilization—if the other expeditions failed also—will have reached a dangerously unstable phase, and before we can get back it may have collapsed completely from overpopulation. "Why go back, then with the news of our failure? Why not forget about Earth and go on to Omega Centauri? What use is quixotic loyalty to a decree five thousand years old, whose makers are dead and which may be forgotten back there? was once 'home' has probably been swept away.... To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths unhurried. Whatever it had been was past, and he had a good idea what it had been—a meteoroid, nothing unusual in the vicinity of the Sun, though in interstellar space and around planetless stars Quest III's interstellar ship. Knowing that Gwar Den was still there, he said, "Now—attacked by what?" "Ships," said Gwar Den helplessly. "Five of them so far. No, there's a Quest III's framework. The navigator said, obviously striving for calm, "They're light craft, not he had heard his father's words. "Something's happened," he judged with deadly twelve-year-old seriousness and, without wasting time on questions, "Can I go with you, huh, Dad?" Quest III of horsepower behind them but it plunged on toward Earth, its mighty engines still steadily braking its interstellar velocity. To a man, the ship's responsible officers were already on the bridge, "If they had anything heavier," surmised the captain, "they'd have unlimbered it by now. They're out to get us. But at this rate, they Quest III's Quest III the vicious onslaught being hurled against them, save that their inertialess drive, at its normal thrust of two hundred gravities, was intentionally operated at one half of one per cent efficiency to wait for us. But why on Earth—" "That," said the captain grimly, "is what we have to find out. Why—on Earth. At least, I suspect the answer's there." The Quest III change course. There was nowhere else to go and too little fuel left if there had been come what might, this was journey's end—perhaps in a more violent and final way than had been anticipated. All around wheeled the pigmy enemies, circling, maneuvering, and attacking, Quest III's Quest III , except that they were rocket-propelled and of far lesser size. Their size was hard to ascertain, because you needed to know their distance and speed—but detector-beam echoes gave the distance, and likewise, by they had explored, but one of the other Quests might have encountered and been traced home by some unhuman race that was greedy and able to conquer. constant arrival of fresh attackers, while others raced away into space, presumably returning to base to replenish their ammunition. That argued a planned and prepared interception with virulent hatred behind it. "We'll have reached Earth before then," Gwar Den said hopefully. "If they don't bring out the heavy artillery first." "We're under the psychological disadvantage," said the captain, "of not audio carrier wave that shifted through a wide range of frequencies, repeating on each the same brief recorded message: "Who are you? What do you want? We are the interstellar expedition Quest III ...." And so on, identifying themselves and protesting that Quest III his ship. Zost Relyul approached him apologetically. "If you have time, Captain—I've got some data on Earth now." last. The two other interstellar expeditions that went out have already returned and been destroyed, as you will soon be—the sooner, if you continue toward Earth." from Earth, relayed by one of the midget ships—was not very smart it had already involuntarily told him a couple of things—that it was not Quest III's human? "

<question>:
Where was the Quest III coming home from?

<options>:
A A dying star
B Procyon
C Capella
D An expedition

<answer>:

D