I can't wait to see that patch. I have found the same bug in my own game. I even started a new game and used the game editer to find it and it still crashed.
I wonder Which line of story quests is the dead zone linked to.

<t> I think I just had this same crash happening for me, but I was able to work my way around it by going into the game editer and Deleting ALL of the Giant Kaltors before trggering the event that will happen there. After the event I quickly deleted the base as well before another giant kaltor ...

The thing in this patch that I liked the most was the Significant performance improvements part of it.

<t> My game seems to keep crashing as soon as I find and/or take control of a base that has a ton of these giant Kaltors all around it in deep space. <br/>
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The base with all the Giant Kaltors around it is in sector G6.<br/>
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I added the save file to this post.<br/>
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I would ...