Fusion Genesis

To make the Consortium available, you must first get through the basic tutorial of the game and arrive at Alpha Station, as soon as you get there you can immediately begin Consortium missions and work towards this. Do not be worried about your level as it was not an issue for me and did it straight away, neglecting the main story missions. If you have joined a faction prior to this one, you must go to Alpha Station and go into Embassy Missions and go into the story missions menu, the second option will be to change faction.

To join the Consortium, head to The Last Stand in the bottom right-hand corner of the map (accessible by pressing the Y button). When you arrive you will be given the option to do Embassy Missions, do the only story mission that is there FIRST. Once you have completed the first story mission you will gain your first Faction Level and this will be how you unlock more missions for the story line as you do smaller missions for the faction in order to gain Faction XP to unlock the next one. The amount of Faction XP required to get to the next rank is your current level multiplied by 3 (Lvl 2 = 600 Faction XP required for next mission). At first you will have two characters to choose smaller Embassy Missions from, a man named Preacher and a woman, Belinda, she will give you a couple of missions at Last Stand for 240Fxp afte these are done you will have to travel to another area to continue, I do not recommend this method. Preacher will have the option of doing missions with three different levels of difficulty each giving a different amount of xp (Easy=100, Medium=200 and Hard=300) I recommend, regardless of level, focusing on only the Hard missions as with my help you wont have a problem with them. The missions you should focus on are the following.

Lost Animals/More Lost Animals - This will require you to fly to either Icy Waters or Nemo's Folly and collect 3 to 4 crates floating there and then return to The Last Stand

Lost Object/Another Object To Locate - This will require you to fly to
either Icy Waters or Nemo's Folly and locate 3 solar panel things floating there and then return to The Last Stand

The reason you will be focusing on these two missions are :-

a) They are quick, easily done within 2-3 minutes or so.
b) If you die you do not fail the mission
c) If you die after Mission Complete is displayed you will
instantly arrive at The Last Stand.

To get to the hardest missions and get the 300 Faction XP, hit the Right Trigger twice, if neither of the missions are there simply hit the Left Trigger and then return to the hardest missions, it shouldn't take very long for one of them to show up.

To get to the highest rank and unlock all the story missions you will need a total of 10,800 Faction XP, requiring a minimum 36 missions (not including the story missions) if you focus only on the hardest ones.

Good luck.

Credit to Jim Survak for information on Belinda.

Should you decide to vote negatively, please let me know your thoughts on how to improve my solution.

To make the Consortium available, you must first get through the basic tutorial of the game and arrive at Alpha Station, as soon as you get there you can immediately begin Consortium missions and work towards this. Do not be worried about your level as it was not an issue for me and did it straight away, neglecting the main story missions. If you have joined a faction prior to this one, you must go to Alpha Station and go into Embassy Missions and go into the story missions menu, the second option will be to change faction.

To join the Consortium, head to The Last Stand in the bottom right-hand corner of the map (accessible by pressing the Y button). When you arrive you will be given the option to do Embassy Missions, do the only story mission that is there FIRST. Once you have completed the first story mission you will gain your first Faction Level and this will be how you unlock more missions for the story line as you do smaller missions for the faction in order to gain Faction XP to unlock the next one. The amount of Faction XP required to get to the next rank is your current level multiplied by 3 (Lvl 2 = 600 Faction XP required for next mission). At first you will have two characters to choose smaller Embassy Missions from, a man named Preacher and a woman, Belinda, she will give you a couple of missions at Last Stand for 240Fxp afte these are done you will have to travel to another area to continue, I do not recommend this method. Preacher will have the option of doing missions with three different levels of difficulty each giving a different amount of xp (Easy=100, Medium=200 and Hard=300) I recommend, regardless of level, focusing on only the Hard missions as with my help you wont have a problem with them. The missions you should focus on are the following.

Lost Animals/More Lost Animals - This will require you to fly to either Icy Waters or Nemo's Folly and collect 3 to 4 crates floating there and then return to The Last Stand

Lost Object/Another Object To Locate - This will require you to fly to
either Icy Waters or Nemo's Folly and locate 3 solar panel things floating there and then return to The Last Stand

The reason you will be focusing on these two missions are :-

a) They are quick, easily done within 2-3 minutes or so.
b) If you die you do not fail the mission
c) If you die after Mission Complete is displayed you will
instantly arrive at The Last Stand.

To get to the hardest missions and get the 300 Faction XP, hit the Right Trigger twice, if neither of the missions are there simply hit the Left Trigger and then return to the hardest missions, it shouldn't take very long for one of them to show up.

To get to the highest rank and unlock all the story missions you will need a total of 10,800 Faction XP, requiring a minimum 36 missions (not including the story missions) if you focus only on the hardest ones.

Good luck.

Credit to Jim Survak for information on Belinda.

Should you decide to vote negatively, please let me know your thoughts on how to improve my solution.