Enough to get a million metric tons of cargo to Mars (the estimated minimum for viable long term settlement, as explained elsewhere in comments) on a reasonable

Enough to get a million metric tons of cargo to Mars (the estimated minimum for viable long term settlement, as explained elsewhere in comments) on a reasonable timetable. The most comparable scale they’re targeting for manufacturing Starships is jet airplanes. They’re supposed to be space busses, essentially. The way Musk sees them is, as “cattle, not pets”.