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Wouldn't it be relatively trivial to do pic related but with modified Starships?

Pull the header tanks further down into the hull and replace the normal nosecone with one that can eject like a payload faring. Inside have the same sort of docking/fuel attachment arrangement that the top of Superheavy has, then start launching a bunch of these modified ships up and dock them all together. Slap a regular crewed Starship on front and then fuel the whole fucker up and you've got an assload of extra delta-v to go to Titan or wherever else you want to visit at a significantly higher speed than you otherwise would. Granted you'd wind up leaving the "booster" Starships as expendable stages but a couple hundred million to shave a few years off the journey doesn't seem like a bad trade.

You could probably even launch the individual boosters to Mars and do the orbital assembly and refueling from a Mars base to cut down the time even further.