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>>14835305
Village motors are just small rockets used to help separate stages, the acceleration they produce also helps push the propellant 'down' in a tank, in this case it would push fuel 'down' into another craft

>>12446662
This is what happens with reignitions. They are uncertain. They need ullage. But that is hard to accomplish when you are flipping and flopping and doing stunts.

I don't see the Martian astronauts surviving this. Better he just launches a more classic skycrane descent stage on top of superheavy, and lift off in a separate ascent stage to avoid flying rocks, as Apollo and Chang'e 5 did.