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Bit torn here not sure what to pick, so I'll just lay out what i think are some pro's and con's here.
As much as I'd love to tour our fellow forge worlds
+The sooner we pursue becoming Fabricator General, and beat out Kelbor Hal, the better. It might reduce some of the schism severity later on
+We can more easily ensure the primacy and further independence and growth of Lucius from within Mars
+It will give us both economic legitimacy via Lucius, and historical Legitimacy via Mars. We can more easily achieve position while Mars is still poor and hasn't grown fat off the efforts of the Great Crusade, where as later mars will have more ties and more resources so our leverage might be less potent
+It makes a bit of religious sense Talos would want to first pursue a pilgrimage to the holiest of cities and take his friends (maybe we can still pilgrimage to other Forge Worlds or 'inspect' them as Fab General of Mars)
-Becoming politician immediately means we might be stuck on Mars politics before we can do all the cool exploring and visits
At the same time, the Tour option also has its perks and (hopefully) it doesn't lock us out of becoming Fabricator General.
+We can justify it as the long pilgrimage, touring the other holy sites of the Galaxy and saving Mars for last
+We can gain choice connections and political support from those planets, to give us leverage when heading to mars. Perhaps making promises and offers. "Support me for Fabricator General of the Mechanicum, and I will help you in return"
+We can upgrade ourselves and get technology for Lucius and also help Lucius get connected with the wider Admech
+Lets us still turn about and help Lucius if things go bad in the Mitu War
-Kelbor Hal will have more time to secure himself/Mars has more time to gain its own resources and connections, so just using the resource leverage of Lucius might be harder
