SpaceX is planning to establish a permanent orbital fuel depot to support missions to the Moon and Mars, according to Kathy Lueders, the General Manager of Starbase.
I think the engineers are probably less enamoured then Musk with sending a couple hundred tons of steel at a very expensive and complicated facility, on the basis of a single partially successful test haha
this. Musk is not there to do plumbing on the raptors. he is there to dare the engineers. Musk can absorb the kind of risk that engineers can not. So Musk has to be their safety net and tell them to go kick ass.