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The solution for me was to declare both the parent frame and child frame as base_link in the SRDF.

<virtual_joint name="fixed_frame" type="fixed" parent_frame="base_link" child_link="base_link" />

This removed the Global Status error, now saying "OK" and the TF tree is populated! Moving on to bigger and harder things

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