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>>16220063
It genuinely makes more sense to use starship's YUGE upmass to build a mars gateway in leo and send it to mars orbit like lockheed martin is thinking about doing.

Use that as a base camp to stage early exploration missions using a safer lander and build up landing pads, refueling depots, starter habitats, and other infrastructure. Then you send the starship fleet with thousands of tons of cargo to land on the pre-constructed landing pads.