Using Rules with a Container Node? Design advice sought.

Quesions:

• Should I design a custom form or a "Node Container"?
• Is there a way so that Rules can prevent the creation of the "Node Container" after submit? (I don't want the useless nodes)

My goal is to have a "Node Container" in which there is a list of set node types that a user can then select a node type and they are re-directed to the node/add form. The tricky part is that I want to carry-over the title and body field from the "Node Container" to whatever node type they select from the list. See the image attached for a clear example.

This most precise way for me to accomplish this is probably by designing a custom form instead of a "Node Container" but I'm not sure how well that will work with using Rules to prepopulate the fields, plus I have no experience making forms from scratch. But if people feel that is the way I should go, I'm willing to learn.

Also, in rules, there is a "content is going to be saved" option, which is close to what I want, but I don't want to actually have this "placeholder" node create a new node, just re-direct to the node/add form of the correct node with the "prepopulate" text.