input: Text: <unk>!-- $Id: header.txt 236 2009-12-07 18:57:00Z vlsimpson $ --> PLANET of DREAD By MURRAY LEINSTER Illustrator ADKINS I. Moran cut apart the yard-long monstrosity with a slash of flame. The thing presumably died, but it continued to writhe senselessly. He turned to see other horrors crawling toward him. Then he knew he was being marooned on a planet of endless terrors. Moran, naturally, did not mean to help in the carrying out of the plans which would mean his destruction one way or another. The plans were thrashed out very painstakingly, in formal conference on the space-yacht Nadine, with Moran present and allowed to take part in the discussion. From the viewpoint of the Nadine's ship's company, it was simply necessary to get rid of Moran. In their predicament he might have come to the same conclusion; but he was not at all enthusiastic about their decision. He would die of it. The Nadine was out of overdrive and all the uncountable suns of the galaxy shone steadily, remotely, as infinitesimal specks of light of every color of the rainbow. Two hours since, the sun of this solar system had been a vast glaring disk off to port, with streamers and prominences erupting about its edges. Now it lay astern, and Moran could see the planet that had been chosen for his marooning. It was a cloudy world. There were some dim markings near one lighted
  Question: Why is the crew of the Nadine not more upset that Moran stole their spacecraft?
  
   (A) They view Moran as a potential sacrifice to any predators or officials they may discover upon the alien planet.
   (B) They are fugitives just like Moran, and don't believe he has a motive to thwart their mission.
   (C) They have no space navigation experience, while Moran does, and view him as potentially useful.
   (D) They are not threatened by Moran because he does not have any weapons on his person.
  Answer:
output: They are fugitives just like Moran, and don't believe he has a motive to thwart their mission.