New Campaign Help, Pulling off an odd idea Options

[Cabral]

So I've got a new game planned and I'd like help putting it together. I'd like to touch on some history of SR before the campaign starts. The original idea was to convert some key adventures and run the group through those. But I think it might be too long of a lead up before the "actua;" campaign starts.

So my thought is to break the campaign into 3 stages:

Stage 1, History: For this, I may run them through Renraku Arcology: Shutdown or Brainscan and maybe something else before.

The runners they use for this are used just for this History stage and they are told so before hand. The Arcology will be last bit and we don't play out their exit.

Stage 2, Corp Sec: I want to develop the idea that CorpSec are people too, most of the time, so after Stage 1, I'm going to alternate between playing security guards in Stage 2 and Stage 3 (below). While playing the guards they'll fend off runner attacks and other site security tasks ... fun fun fun.

Stage 3: The real campaign. Don't really have a them or recurring villain in mind, I'm probably going to use the free adventures online and see what works. At chargen, I'll have some system for granting extra BPs for karma earned at Stage 1. Or maybe just transfer a portion of the karma.

The Twist: After several sessions, Stage 3 runners hit the facility guarded by Stage 2 guards. Hopefully the Stage 2 time will give them the inclination to disable rather than kill the Sec team. Either way, as part of their run, they discover the facility is a cyborg research facility - The guards are actually cloned biodrones (yes, I know what Augmentation says about humans and CAST) controlled by brain-in-a-boxes. So, who're the tissue donors? The Stage 1 runners, of course. This facility is a Renraku subsidiary and is continuing some of Deus' research. The runners never made it out and became research rats. The group my not discover this last twist.

Post Twist: Business as usual once thrown objects die down.

So, what do you think? Good Idea? Bad Idea? Cheesy? Obvious? Also, any suggestions for the history review?