These starship with people loaded onto them were supposed to be parked in orbit while the fleet of 1000 ships is assembled and provisioned.
Supplying meals to people in space is extraordinarily expensive. I believe it’s on the order of tens of thousands of dollars per day. So months of that.
But the volume of the second stage isn’t sufficient to carry 100 people, much less than 100 with all the requisite life support and supplies.