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>>12269883
I'm not the guy who suggested O'neills, I was thinking more like multiple chained together large rotohabs. Imagine these, but stacked together so there are several pairs of counter-rotating rings. Construction would be done by loading large payloads onto Starships with magnetoplasma rocket propulsion busses that can actually achieve a low Martian orbit. Say 70 ton packs of construction materials and 30 tons of propulsion and power bus. They could be assembled in orbit by robots controlled in real time by the first generation of Martian colonists. Ideally by the time the first pregnancies occur ISRU for propellant manufacture will be in swing and the first generation of Martian children can be born in an environment of 1G.