Red Sky, Blue Flame

Red Sky, Blue Flame is a short story by Elaine Cunningham, published in Star Wars Gamer #7 in 2001. It is set in a Chiss military training outpost in the Rata Nebula, a few years before the events of the Yuuzhan Vong War.

Red Sky, Blue Flame tells the story of how Jagged Fel proved his command abilities to Shawnkyr Nuruodo and his other Chiss comrades, how he came to acquire the distinctive scar across his forehead, and also how the Chiss came to trust the Fel family.

Characters

 * Fel family
 * Jagged Fel
 * Soontir Fel
 * Ysanne Isard
 * Kres'ten'tarthi
 * Shawnkyr Nuruodo

Locations

 * Rata Nebula
 * Rhigar
 * Rhigar 3
 * Syndic Mitth'raw'nuruodo training academy

Organizations and titles

 * Chiss Ascendancy
 * Chiss Expansionary Defense Force
 * Lieutenant
 * Cadet
 * Cadet Commander
 * Household Phalanx
 * Cavrilhu Pirates

Spaceships

 * Nssis-class Clawcraft

Species

 * Chiss
 * Human

Weapons

 * Charric

Miscellaneous

 * Red Flame

Behind the scenes
The place of Red Sky, Blue Flame in Star Wars chronology is problematic. Several internal references strongly imply that it occurs very soon after Vision of the Future in 19 ABY, and that was almost certainly the placing that the author intended it to have; but the story apparently describes the death of Stent, who appears alive in Timothy Zahn's subsequent novel Survivor's Quest, set in 22 ABY, and Jag's stated age of fourteen might likewise fit better at this later date.

When the discrepancy became apparent, LucasBooks editor Sue Rostoni initially suggested that the story ought to be relocated to occur after Survivor's Quest ; but the novel Dark Nest I: The Joiner King appears to abandon an important part of Rostoni's fix, the proposed equation of Jag's brothers Davin and Chak, and some fans feel that it is easier to explain Stent's survival and Jag's age than to force the backstory of Red Sky, Blue Flame to fit around the events of Survivor's Quest.