Yep that's the "fix", that's rather embarrassing sorry. I think i was misled by only one half of the GUI increasing in size and not the other.
Thank you again mate. you are a bloody machine.

What did you do? - created uncommon mech armour and equipped it by picking it up out of the inventory and placing it in the armor slot with the mouse. I crafted it on Fulgora, with a mk3 assembler with no modules. the power armor mk2 ingredient was made in a mk3 assembler with 4 t2 uncommon speed mo...

Strange I put both of them in there, ill try again.

I have managed to fix this however I think, by changing the name of the platform then allowing it to die. if i deleted it it was still causing a crash

Hello, posting this report here to hopefully either find a resolution or to aid in finding and fixing things. My save file will crash when the platform i have on Vulcanus dies to a specific asteroid. I went to Vulcanus as a one way trip to see what it was like and noted my game would crash about 30 ...