Idea for a set of books

Scattered

Beginning of 21st century, extrasolar planets discovered. Many that support life. Even evidence of life.

Of course, unattainable by any kind of rocketry or spaceship: space simply too big, human life-spans extendable, but only to a certain limit.

Scanned humans already exist in VR medium, but transmission is not possible. Not only uncertainty of reception, but signals degrade.

Only way found: time travel.

Not time travel really, but space-time displacements. Became possible when quantum microscopy and therefore quantum wormholes were discovered. Method for sending people through: focus on such a wormhole inside or near a person's body and then revert the polarity of the microscope, which with the due calibrations, will produce the displacement of the defined volume in one direction, and the appearance at the place of transmission of the same volume from the other side.

If you focus on a destination place too tightly, the time variable cannot be adjusted.

If you focus on a destination time too tightly, people might end up anywhere in the universe.

So, best possible bet: focus on an area the size and shape of a whole planetary atmosphere, and you get a range of +/- several hundred years.

Since large masses are not only an aid in calculating this kind of displacement but also an asset when effecting the "jump", this method is the best bet for colonization of extrasolar planets.

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Maybe first book could be about the development of all of this technology, and the first colonizers. Would have to be a very large group, so that in spite of the scatter effect there is some assurance that some will survive, meet and reproduce on the target planet.

They are all quipped with some kind of stasis equipment (a quantum microscope set on "looping"?) in case they materialize in a non-viable volume of the planet, as well as other gear (nanotechnology for parachuting, digging out, etc.?).

Settlement is of minimum impact. As soon as they get there, begin building digital systems and interact with native ecosystem only virtually and only rarely nanorobotically.

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Given this setting, there are several possible dramas:

Ending up underground.
Ending up alone for centuries.
Arriving millennia after first colonization.
Alien life.
Digital system failure, must interact with real universe.
Interpersonal conflicts.

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Must give it more thought!