Nassana Mission Bug - Game Crashes on loading screen when visiting Sharjila

I'm running into an issue where I cannot complete the mission to save Dahlia Dantius for Nassana. When i travel to Sharjila in the Artemis Tau cluster, the game enters the Normandy FTL loading screen, but then immediately crashes.

here are my PC specs:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz 4.20 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti