a bug is auto pausing my game and crashes when i open the worldmap for too long

[sunsun]

I noticed this when i was going to reform a caravan after an ambush, that every time i tried to open the worldmap to form a caravan for more than 10 seconds the game would freeze and blackout, I thought this was only a map issue, and tried to remove the giant smoke cloud event in dev mode so I didn't need to caravan, but now the game also pauses itself both in and out of dev mode and shows a 'called spawnedpawninfaction with null faction' error. I tried reloading an earlier save but both problems persist.  help would be greatly appreciated
Logfile: https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/fe61b917c5b4a8067f89f3d110950cd2

[Canute]

Hi,
at first i need to say you have a pretty clean rimworld startup.
No error's like the most other people with trouble.

Since the error is about faction, i would try to ask at the mod discussion from
Vanilla Factions Expanded mods or try to contact Oskar the mod author directly.

[sunsun]

thank you for taking the time to look at it! i'll try the vanilla faction forum