Child who wishes to see one of the other 11 tribes of the Children of Tor who left Yagdir. Religious interference in technology inhibits this and when he does succeed at building a spacecraft, he finds that the church leaders have always been in contact with eachother and that the conspiracy streches across 11 of the 13 colonized planets. He gets his had up into space from one of the rebels from one of the two dissonant planets (the second one being VERY isolationist, but just short of a utopia except they're living like animals. No war, but no progress either. They simply used eugenics and a criminal justice system with no sense of humor (or reasonable punishment) to "clense" their society which is ruled over by a fierce dictator.) The homeworld of Yagdir is indeed in on the same scheme as the 10 colony ship destinations, though the story is slightly different, marking that the colony ships where banashed and that Yagdir was poisoned by their greed and lust for space. Thus keeping the highly advanced populace grounded.

FTL communication is done using an exotic component that is controlled by the various churches who are ultimately in control of who has advanced electronics or not and what kinds.

Meet stranger, find out about common factors. Start stealing away to talk with him when he should be in store. Friends get worried. Then stranger breaks the illusion. Kid rebels from too different truth. Drifts away from stranger till kids find themselves in a place they shouldn't be that clears up the truth.

Church central command is on a space station in high orbit. All knowledge and other data is beamed to the station by FTL tranceivers, bypassing any snooping from the ants below.

Many changes that I haven't documented yet. ^^;