Crash Upon Initiating Earthling Dialogue

Greetings, all! 

At some point, most likely after the last update, the game started crashing upon initiation of the dialogue with the starbase in Sol (including on a new game). Looking through error files, I found an error log saying the game fails to load ../Assets/Models/Commander/Commander_Background.fbx, and found there's no such file in there. Running a verification of integrity/repair didn't seem to fix anything. 

Is there a way to quickly fix that? Can I get the missing fbx somewhere? What am I doing wrong the repair tool doesn't notice the omission? 

Thanks in advance!