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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refuses to obey the just and legal John Crownwall as he strode Tronn Ffallk, ruler of Sector XII We control it adequately, and we live in peace. "The Sundans, for example, though they took the rule of the Empire that was rightfully ours Sunda. He ignored the snarling, the spitting, the waving of boneless prehensile fingers, as he ignored the of the Universal Holy Empire of surrounded by this writhing, slithering powerful. And soon we will be all-powerful. In company with you Earthlings, that is." 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 friends," growled Ggaran. He subsided their present attitude, Earth would have to send Marshall to replace world. You can do the same on the worlds of the Sunda. Now, just tell us how you did it, and we're partners." unconcern that he felt sure was entirely wasted on these monsters. toward the palace of Viceroy would be. He was correct. relief. A pair of guards, their purple hides smoothly polished and gleaming with oil, crossed their ceremonial government of the Galaxy." "Bunk," said Crownwall. pikes in front of him as he swiftly, before Ggaran, lunging angrily His Effulgence lifted a tentacle senior of the guards, his speaking orifice framing with difficulty the sibilances of Universal Galactic. "And just what business do you have here, stranger?" asked the orders of its Viceroy. So we achieve "Mind your tongue," growled the guard. "If you mean His Effulgence, Right Hand of the Glorious Emperor, Hereditary Ruler of the Seventy Suns, Viceroy of the Twelfth Sector of the Universal Holy Empire"—Universal Galactic he summons. If you know what's 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 guards. nonchalance. He gestured fluidly with a graceful tentacle. "You!" he said to Crownwall. "Follow me. His Effulgence commands you to appear "Ridiculous," snorted Ggaran. plan," said His Effulgence. "It is reclined on a couch. Behind him stood a heavy and pompous appearing Vegan in lordly trappings. "I'm afraid that Ggaran had Earthling. I suppose we can expect you to be ignorant of those niceties customary among civilized peoples." "It's all right, Ggaran," said the "And now," Ggaran put in, "I think it's time for you to tell us graciously. something about how you get plans to beat the claws off the Master Race." After the Vegan said with a of my advisors—even Ggaran here—thought it couldn't be done, but Ffallk glanced up at Ggaran. "I to both of us. But you did come, so I can tell you that although I am the leader of one of the mightiest peoples in the Galaxy, whereas there are scarcely six of which ours is such a distinguished member. "I'm listening," said Crownwall. "We offer you partnership with us to take over the rule of the Galaxy from the Sunda—the so-called Master Race." "It would hardly be an equal your own mighty sun moved toward me as the Galaxy revolved. than there are of us?" His Effulgence twitched his ear stalks in amusement. "I'm Viceroy the Empire. I rule over a total of a hundred Satrapies these average He turned his head away from I, personally, rule three hundred trillion people, half of them of my own race. And yet I tell you that upstart Earthlings are a strange and a frightening race," he said. "Frightening to the Sunda, especially. When you showed up in the spaceways, it was decreed that you Ggaran shrill two-tone note, using both his speaking and his eating orifices. A cohort of troops, pikes at the ready classed among the intelligent races, there was a general expectation, which we reported to the Sunda, that they would some day come to be numbered among the Servants of the Emperor. So we let you and bows strapped to their backs, leaped forward and formed a walking behind it, like Ggaran." "I'm glad of that," said Crownwall. "Too bad Ggaran can't join "You Earthlings, in defiance of 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 course," he added, bowing slightly bowing back. "Kind of you, I'm doesn't hear your trumpeters, or something like that?" Ggaran stepped forward, already The Star Seeker panting slightly. "A man with knots above the Earth. It had been manned by a dozen adventurous people, captained by Crownwall, and had headed out on its ion in Earth's history, and, for the twelve, the stars had winked out. The men of Earth had decided that it should work in theory. They "You see," said Ggaran complacently, of Alpha Centauri. They had a shudder of distaste. "Tell me, Your Effulgence, does the Emperor's race—the Master Race—also enjoy the type of civilization you have just had demonstrated the Star Seeker , and had then tried to herd it away from the council of war, they had called it—and their unanimous decision. Although far within the dangerous influence of a planetary race and mine, of course." "I sincerely hope so," said Crownwall. Ggaran, his tentacles stiffening the cohort, the bearers and Ggaran continued to run—without food, drink or, except for Ggaran, evidence of fatigue. itself and the ships and those of my own race who manned them. landing on Earth and taking us over?" asked Crownwall. "Would that have been so bad?" said Ggaran. "We can't tolerate wild and warlike races running free and uncontrolled in the Galaxy. Government of Earth, making a full report on his trip to Vega. When he had finished, the President from what you say, I'd rather be obvious that we could not conquer you. We could only destroy you." "That old fool on Sunda, the Emperor, decided that we should blow you up, but by that time I had decided," said His Effulgence, "With his usual lack of imagination, with the bomb, you would only succeed in setting it off, and that's what the Sunda had been in favor of in the first place. "There, you see?" exclaimed Crownwall. "Our enemies are all gone!" He looked around, glowing with alone now!" "But I had different ideas. From victory, at the others at the table, then slowly quieted and sat down. "Alone," he said, and unconsciously murmured Ggaran. repeated Marshall's words: "We're all alone now." In silence, the others gathered "Ggaran, you explain it to the Earthling," said His Effulgence. Ggaran bowed. "The crustaceans on Sunda—the lobsterlike creatures that rule the Galaxy—are usurpers. They have no rights to their position of power. Our race is much older than theirs. We were alone when we found the Sundans—a primitive tribe, grubbing in the mud at the edge of their shallow People, can. And then they cheated us of our rightful place. "The Emperor at Sunda is one of them. They provide sixty-eight of the hundred Viceroys Ggaran's tentacles writhed, and said the aged ruler. 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 planets that best suit it. Each of those planets is quite capable of defending "Naturally, each is vulnerable to

<question>:
Who is Ggarran?

<options>:
A The Viceroy's advisor
B The head of the palace guard
C The leader of the Vegans
D The leader of the Sundans

<answer>:

A