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

<passage>:
there isn't a trap, the Karna can't satisfy Braynek, because he's convinced that there their best to win at the peace conference, and they've got the Karna reeling. The Karna can see that we're not trying to stall our men are actually working at trying to reach a decision. But what the Karna don't see is that those men, as a team, are unbeatable Terran Embassy Building in Occeq City, Bertrand Diplomatic Corps who developed a twitch or a quirk was shipped to Saarkkad IV to work under Bertrand Malloy, Permanent Terran Ambassador to His Utter Munificence, the Occeq of Saarkkad. Take this first one, for instance. Malloy ran his finger down the columns the Saarkkada the way a good Saarkkadic bigshot should, is because I like He was—how old? He glanced at the Earth calendar dial that was automatically correlated with the Saarkkadic calendar just above it. Fifty-nine next week. Fifty-nine years old. And years, but still beautiful and alive in his recollections. And—he grinned softly to himself—he had Saarkkad. He glanced up at the ceiling, and mentally allowed his gaze to penetrate of interstellar space—a great, yawning, infinite chasm capable of swallowing men, ships, planets, suns, and Somewhere out there, the ships of Earth were ranged against the ships of the alien Karna in the most important war that Mankind had yet fought. it was necessary to keep the drug supply lines flowing from Saarkkad, and that meant keeping on good terms with the Saarkkadic government. The Saarkkada themselves were humanoid in physical form—if one allowed the term to cover a wide range didn't function along the same lines. For nine years, Bertrand Malloy had been Ambassador to Saarkkad, and for nine years, no Saarkkada had ever seen him. To have shown himself to one of them would have official was aloof. The greater his importance, the greater must be his isolation. The Occeq of Saarkkad himself was never seen except by a were never seen except by their underlings. It was a long, roundabout way of doing business, but it was the only way Saarkkad would do any business at all. To violate the rigid social setup of Saarkkad would mean the instant closing off of the supply of biochemical products that the Saarkkadic laboratories produced from native plants and animals—products to Earth's war, and which could be duplicated nowhere else in the known universe. the Saarkkada weren't difficult to get along with. A staff of top-grade men could have handled them without there were places in the galaxy that were less important than Saarkkad to the war effort. Malloy knew that, no matter enough and he'd better not try fermenting his own on Saarkkad unless been teletyped in from Earth. Shall I Malloy had made her his private going to be it didn't matter because "Armistice," he said in a low war may be over." need say that no news of this is to was over—at least for a while. He looked down at the papers again. The Karna, slowly being beaten back on every front, were suing for peace. They wanted an armistice conference—immediately. Earth was willing. Interstellar war is too costly to allow it to continue any longer than necessary, and this thirteen years now. Peace was necessary. But not peace at any price. The trouble was that the Karna had a reputation for losing wars and winning at the peace table. They were like weaknesses. If they won the armistice, Now—at this point in time—they impotent. But if the armistice went to in the matter of the peace talks. They had sent a full delegation to Saarkkad V, the next planet out from the Saarkkad sun, a chilly world inhabited only by low-intelligence animals. The Karna considered this to be fully neutral territory, and Earth couldn't argue the point very well. In addition, they demanded that the conference begin in three days, Terrestrial time. The trouble was that interstellar communication beams travel a devil of a lot faster than ships. It would take more than a week for the Earth government to get a vessel to Saarkkad V. Earth had been caught unprepared for an armistice. They objected. The Karna pointed out that the Saarkkad sun was just as far from Karn as it was from Earth, that it was only a few million miles from a planet which was allied with Earth, and that it was unfair for Earth to take so much time in preparing for an armistice. Why hadn't Earth been prepared? Did they intend to fight to the utter destruction of Karn? It wouldn't have been a problem at all if Earth and Karn had fostered the only two intelligent races in the galaxy. The sort of grandstanding the Karna were putting on had to be played to an audience. But there were other intelligent races throughout the galaxy, most of whom had remained as neutral as possible during the Earth-Karn war. They had no intention of sticking their figurative noses into a battle between the two most powerful races in the galaxy. But whoever won the armistice Karna played their cards right, their side would be strong enough next time to win. So Earth had to get a delegation to meet with the Karna representatives within the three-day limit or lose what might be a vital point in the negotiations. He had been appointed Minister and Plenipotentiary Extraordinary to the Earth-Karn peace conference. He looked up at the ceiling again. "What On the second day after the arrival made his decision. He flipped on his intercom and said: "Miss Drayson, get hold of James Nordon and Kylen Braynek. I want to see them both immediately. Send Nordon in first, and the Karna peace talks. "We need a man who can outthink them," Malloy finished, "and judging Of course not. "You'll be leaving within an hour for Saarkkad V." Nordon nodded again. "Yes, sir certainly. Am I to go alone?" to study it and get it into your head before the ship leaves. That isn't much time, but it's the Karna who are doing the pushing, not us." As soon as Nordon had left, Malloy Miss Drayson." Kylen Braynek was a smallish man with mouse-brown hair that lay flat of the peace conference. quietly and evaluate the data "They won't get anything by me, Mr. Malloy." By the time the ship from Earth got there, the peace conference had been going on for four days. Bertrand parley, as relayed to him through the ship that had taken Nordon and Braynek to Saarkkad V. Secretary of State Blendwell stopped off at Saarkkad IV before going on to V to take charge of the conference. He was a tallish, lean man with on Earth?" "Tense. They're waiting to see what is going to happen on Five. So am I, for that matter." His eyes were curious. "You decided not to go ins and outs of the Diplomatic Corps. When Blendwell looked up from the reports at last, he said: "Amazing! They've held off the Karna at every point! They've beaten them back! They've managed to cope with and outdo the finest team of negotiators the Karna could send." "I thought they would," said Malloy, trying to appear modest. Karna put us in a dilemma, so I threw a dilemma right back at them." "How do you mean?" admits of no alternatives, he can't move at all. "As you can see, the Karna tried to give us several choices on each point, and they were all rigged. Until they backed down to a single point thinks everyone is plotting against him. In this case, that's all to the good because the Karna are trap in it somewhere, and he digs to find out what the trap is. Even if

<question>:
Why are the peace talks on Saarkkad V?

<options>:
A Saarkkad V is not inhabited by intelligent life.
B The Karna consider Saarkkad V to be neutral territory.
C The inhabitants of Saarkkad V don't pose a danger to the Karna or to the humans.
D Saarkkad V is halfway between Earth and Karn.

<answer>:

B