Encounter idea from starter GM, help!
Hi y’all, finally got some time to dig into the rules of Lancer and look into GMing for friends! I had a really cool idea for an encounter after looking at the Blackbeard chassis, but I wanna see if this is actually practical or not for gameplay…
The basic premise is the players have been hired to recover a Blackbeard frame from aboard an abandoned IPS-N freighter and are free to take whatever else they find aboard. Through poking around and investigating the ship, players learn that the ship wasn’t just left behind, the crew has been dead for a long time and the navigation systems are trashed. Upon discovering the frame aboard the ship, it begins to move, wheeling on the players before clambering up into the rafters of the little hangar area a la Alien. The players now have to hunt down the rogue frame and find a way to shut it down while it starts dismantling vital systems on the ship on its rampage.
Reading the Sekhmet NHP got this idea brewing, but is it enough? Should I consider extra enemies or events aboard to keep things interesting? Any help would be appreciated!
Edit: I forgot one of the main reasons I asked, is there a good way to GM a player-side frame as an NPC in this way?