Problem Importing Boombot

I started a new project in 3.1.4 and I'm trying to get boombot into it. No weapons, effects, or sounds, just the boombot, materials and animations. I keep getting an "Reference not set to an instance of an object" error in T3DControlComponent at:

public void ProcessTick(Move move, float dt)
{
  _UpdateControl(move, dt);
  FSM.Instance.Execute(this);
  ((ControlState)_currentState).UpdateControl(this, move, dt);//<-- _currentState is null!
}

Comments in the code warn against setting this value directly, so does anyone have any idea how this is set?