Elasticsearch always leaves unassigned shards on startup

Hi,

Just getting started with ES. I'm integrating it into my Play! 2
application using the scalastic scala wrapper for the java API.

I can happily index & retrieve documents, but ONLY if I delete and recreate
my index every time the application starts, which is pretty useless.

I have a Gist showing how I start and stop a node when my application boots
up/shuts down:

and here is what my Elasticsearch-head page looks like after starting up
the app without recreating the index:

http://imgur.com/eA6AF4u

Which shows yellow status, however curl -XGET
'http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health returns RED status, and that's also
what my application reports!

Many thanks for any help/advice,

A

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