[ A desert world sounds disastrous. It would be so difficult to grow food and people would go so thirsty. There wouldn't be any fish to eat and animals to hunt would be scarce with how there's no water. He can imagine the scarcity this man must be used to. ]

I am a recruit as well. Where I come from, it's common to travel by sea on ships. How are people from your world surviving with so little water?