Jedidiah Troyer - (Main Character) An 18 year old Amish man who has signed up for an emigration program that is colonizing the planet of New Pennsylvania.
Amos Troyer - (The SOMA, supreme commander and administrator of the Southern Oklahoma Militia) Jed's younger brother
Dawn Beachy - Customs worker, Transport station, Columbia. Father left the Amish when she was 10, after her mother died. 20ish. Widow of Ben
Ben Beachy - former Amish, banished to Oklahoma for aiding the resistance, died in the Second Transport War
Billy Beachy - Ben's younger brother
Ducky - TRACE member - short, powerful looking man, Pook's second in command
Pook Rayburn - Dawn's cousin - Ben's best friend. Owner/operator Merrill’s Grocery Supply Nexus of TRACE activity in New Pennsylvania and owner/operator Merrill's Antique Shoppe
Will - Trace member
Jerry Rios - Mid twenties, 'giant' gregarious man, traveled on the same transport to New Pennsylvania with Jed
Officer Rheems - Transport Police, Speedwell Galactic Transport Station, Loving County, Texas
Hugh Conrad - Transport Authority, SGT Station
Donavan - A Transport official, New Pennsylvania
Jeff Wainright - Owner Ye Olde World English Tavern, veteran TRACE officer
Martinez - Trace member
Angelo - Trace unit medic
Goa Eeguls - salvager in New Pennsylvania, swarthy, unkempt, chews raw green tobacco
McKay & Warren, Officers on the Tulsa
Trace Council - Councilman Bennings, Councilwoman Reynosa, Councilman Graham
Teddy Clarion - Transport officer, kills Rheems & Conrad, finds Pook's lighter
York Amish Zone in New Pennsylvania
The Zooks - Family who runs the Immigrant Greeting Center, 'Political Amish'
Matthias Miller - Jed's old friend. A young, single man who Jed lives with until he gets his own land
Tom Hochstetler - A close neighbor of Matthias
Arthur Lapp - House used for the meeting where Jed is introduced to the AZ
Elder Bontrager - Amish clinic
Isiah King - Man who tended Matthias after he'd been wounded
The Yoder Clan - Marcus and Elisabeth, a married couple killed by Clarion, and their extended family 'The Farm Bureau'