Liam Kosta: Something for the Neighbors

**Liam Kosta: Something For the Neighbors** is an allies and relationships mission. It is acquired by speaking with Liam Kosta on the Tempest after Liam Kosta: All In. *There are problems with this mission. See notes for details.*

## Description

Liam is pointing your efforts toward his friend and fellow squadmate, Jaal. Placing outposts and dealing with Calot made Andromeda more stable for the Initiative, but it'll be hard to make Heleus a home if the angaran Resistance falls into turmoil.

## Objectives

* ON HOLD: Talk To Jaal About The Resistance
* ON HOLD: Advance Jaal's Friend or Foe mission

## Notes

This mission has problems with acquisition and objectives. It appears to force Ryder into speaking with Jaal Ama Darav and Liam Kosta to help along each of their own personal mission arcs by adding a roadblock to Liam's mission arc. The problem with this mission is that what is required to complete those missions would have been done through normal conversations already with Jaal and Liam. There is no need to put a roadblock mission in Liam's mission arc tying the two mission arcs together. No other squadmates are linked in this fashion or have a strange roadblock mission like this in place. Squadmates personal missions tend to be tied to story progression and completing Priority ops missions. Only Liam Kosta seems to have extra personal mission requirements in addition to the normal priority ops.

How this mission is acquired depends entirely upon which squadmates Ryder has been speaking to. There are three scenarios for acquiring this mission:

* Ryder doesn't speak to Liam Kosta at all. Ryder ignores any requests to visit Liam in the Storage room on the Tempest and doesn't speak to him as he randomly wanders the Tempest.
* Ryder doesn't speak to Jaal Ama Darav at all. Ryder ignores any request to visit Jaal in the Tech Lab on the Tempest and doesn't speak to him as he randomly wanders the Tempest.
* Ryder speaks to both Liam Kosta and Jaal Ama Darav.

It is important to note that the mission itself changes based upon which acquisition method is used. It is most likely that Ryder will have been speaking to both squadmates and that will be the only way the mission is acquired but the other two methods, while being extreme, do lead to differences in the mission. It should be noted that there is no change to the outcome of the mission based upon the acquisition method.

* Ryder completely ignores Jaal Ama Darav
	+ Ryder starts/completes all of Liam Kosta's personal missions in his arc: Liam Kosta: Armor Diplomacy, Liam Kosta: Outpost Worlds, Liam Kosta: Day out on Aya, and Liam Kosta: All In.
	+ Ryder completes all of the missions and requirements but doesn't trigger Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?. This is done by completing the objective *Meet Evfra at the Resistance HQ* during A Trail of Hope. It is critical to not have spoken to Jaal at all up to this point as that first conversation is the final trigger for Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe? which is connected directly to this mission.
	+ Ryder speaks with Liam after completing all of the requirements leading him to talk about helping out his new friend Jaal and the angara. The mission will trigger with the objective *ON HOLD: Talk To Jaal About The Resistance*.
	+ From this point, the mission can't move forward by helping Liam in any way and Ryder can't continue along Liam's mission arc. Liam will not say anything else and will give no prompts.
	+ Ryder will have to speak to Jaal Ama Darav in the Tech Lab to continue the mission. Ryder will have to speak to Jaal several times in a row to ensure that all of the conversation that can take place has taken place. Even after exhausting all conversation choices and repeatedly talking to Jaal, nothing will show as completing for the ON HOLD objective.
	+ Ryder then leaves the Tempest and lands on any planet or the Nexus. Ryder then returns to the Tempest.
	+ Upon returning to the Tempest, the crew will mention that Jaal wants to speak with Ryder and there will be an onscreen mission flash for Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?. Right after that mission is added, another onscreen flash will add a new mission that is named exactly the same as this mission: Liam Kosta: Something For the Neighbors. There is no completion of the prior ON HOLD objective to speak with Jaal about the resistance, the mission description text reads exactly the same as before but now the prior objective is gone and a new objective has replaced it. There is no completed mission in the completed section of the Journal, there are no indicators of the prior objective ever being there, there is only the new objective *ON HOLD: Advance Jaal's Friend or Foe mission*.
	+ Ryder can now speak to Jaal and advance Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?.
	+ Ryder completes Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe? Part 1 and most of Part 2. Once Ryder completes the objective *Return to Bradley in Prodromos*, there will be an onscreen flash and the objective *ON HOLD: Advance Jaal's Friend or Foe mission* will show as completed. The mission is done at this point as the trigger to completing the ON HOLD is tied to speaking with August Bradley.
	+ No reward is given for completing the mission.
	+ Ryder can now continue Liam's mission arc with Liam Kosta: Community showing up the next time Ryder speaks with Liam.
* Ryder completely ignores Liam Kosta
	+ Ryder has been speaking with Jaal and has completely exhausted all conversation options.
	+ Ryder completes all of the missions and requirements to trigger Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?.
	+ Ryder continues speaking with Jaal and advancing Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?. Liam Kosta: Something For the Neighbors is not given as a mission and it doesn't appear in the Journal.
	+ Ryder completes Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe? Part 1 and most of Part 2. Once Ryder completes the objective *Return to Bradley in Prodromos*, that mission will add the objective *ON HOLD: Wait for Akksul to make his next move* but there is no onscreen flash that Liam Kosta: Something for the Neighbors was completed.
	+ Ryder can now go to the Completed Missions section of the Journal and Liam Kosta: Something for the Neighbors will have automatically been completed. Both objectives will show up as completed and the mission text talks about the aftermath of Liam Kosta: All In even though that mission hasn't been started.
	+ No reward is given for autocompleting the mission.
	+ Ryder can now speak to Liam and start his personal mission arc. After the mission Liam Kosta: All In, the next mission will jump over Liam Kosta: Something For the Neighbors as it is already completed and move directly on to Liam Kosta: Community.
* Ryder speaks to both Jaal Ama Darav and Liam Kosta
	+ Ryder starts/completes all of Liam Kosta's personal missions in his arc: Liam Kosta: Armor Diplomacy, Liam Kosta: Outpost Worlds, Liam Kosta: Day out on Aya, and Liam Kosta: All In.
	+ Ryder completes all of the missions and requirements triggering Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?.
	+ Ryder speaks with Liam after completing all of the requirements leading him to talk about helping out his new friend Jaal and the angara. The mission will trigger with the objective *ON HOLD: Advance Jaal's Friend or Foe mission*. The first objective never appears as Ryder has already spoken with Jaal triggering the replacement of the mission and objective.
	+ From this point forward, the mission can't move forward by helping Liam in any way and Ryder can't continue along Liam's mission arc. Liam will not say anything else and will give no prompts.
	+ Ryder can now speak to Jaal and advance Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?.
	+ Ryder completes Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe? Part 1 and most of Part 2. Once Ryder completes the objective *Return to Bradley in Prodromos*, there will be an onscreen flash and the objective *ON HOLD: Advance Jaal's Friend or Foe mission* will show as completing. The mission is done at this point as the trigger to completing the ON HOLD is tied to speaking with August Bradley.
	+ No reward is given for completing the mission.
	+ Ryder can now continue Liam's mission arc with Liam Kosta: Community showing up the next time Ryder speaks with Liam.

No matter which method is used to acquire this mission, the text description stays the same. The only difference in the completed mission is whether there are one or two completed objectives shown.

## Rewards

There is no apparent viability or XP reward for this mission no matter how the mission was acquired. There is an onscreen reward flash at the completion of the objective *Return to Bradley in Prodromos* but this likely tied to the final objective of Part 2 of that mission. It is in line with other rewards given for that mission right before each ON HOLD objective and not related to this personal mission for Liam.