Hey guys!
Thanks for the attention, and no worries, it was legit to suggest a support ticket of course!
I did file a ticket, I was immediately told to follow the re-install and verify steps. I did this, and it worked, but once I reloaded my custom races and ship designs into documents, I had the same problem again.
I did some file swapping, and eventually figured out that one of my ship design files was causing the crashing.
I've yet to narrow it to one design, I had about 10 or so that I had made in the past 2-3 days and I just took those out and everything started working as expected.
However, I believe i know what happened. I started a turn, went to the designer, and the UP Voting screen must have popped up. I was saving a design and no pop-up appeared, so I cancelled, and then was faced with both the UP Vote screen and my save-popup.
I saved the design, and voted in UP.
So... I'm pretty sure that design is what screwed everything up.