César nods. "Well, it's like a cruise ship. Cruise ships still exist in worlds that have seas and skies full of life. We get fresh air. The food is food. Items continue to exist on our person and in our rooms. But everything else... is devoid of the life it should have. There's microscopic life that's supposed to be all around us, and it's simply not here."

He wonders if the Captain is a germaphobe. Maybe that's why there's no microscopic life, here? No, not likely. But a hypothesis not to be completely discarded. That, or his powers are limited, or he's lazy. To be fair, César would only add microscopic life because he's a completionist and a perfectionist....