I was planning to leave the region tonight but will head towards 2a tonight. I agree, the system seems to be the lock but how we use the key is baffling.
Maybe in another 1800 comments we can combine enough smarts to git gud at this puzzle stuff. I would also love to sleep and not have dreams about whales singing or driving an SRV again.
Hm, something comes to my mind.
Lock and Key. What do you do with a key? Put it in the lock (bring it to Merope)
and turn it around...
when Merope is the Lock then maybe we really wait for a special constellation of the stellar bodies / moons. Specifically when they are all aligned maybe? Does that happen in the near future?