Jedediah Troyer just wants to start a farm and homestead on some affordable land in an Amish community, but... what if the only good, cheap, available land is on another planet? So now Jed has signed up for an emigration program that is intent on colonizing the distant planet of New Pennsylvania. He faces a despotic government agency at war with rebels, the caprices of interstellar travel, a shadowy futuristic insurgency on his new planet, and more...