So I have had this idea since I played the Titan Fall beta, I have even posted this idea before so I wish to revisited it.

The premise is that we arn't the only soldiers out there, we are just immortal soldiers. I also think this will tie into the idea that we are "Warlords".

So pretty much in FW matches (maybe even public), there can be 2-3 "mortal" soldiers on the field per player (so a maximum of 96 (48 a side)). These are NPCs that have 50-100 shields and 100-200 armour. They use assault variants of their racial rifle but dealing far less damage. They are coded to push for the objective and defend it, so they will only really appear (talking public matches) during Dominations and Skirmishes. However they cannot hack installations or objectives. They can, however, destroy certain equipment.

Alone, they are extremely weak and easy to kill, generating only 5-10 WP per kill and cannot be revived or repped. However if they group up in a pack, they can take down us immortals. This has said to of been done in lore. Also if they see an allied Immortal charging into a fight, they assist and will follow some. They can not steal kills, if they land a finishing blow, the kill is awarded to the last player who did damage. They will also fight each other so yoi can always sit back and watch two mortal squads fight it out.

For PC, you can hire mortal mercenaries to fight for you at a price that includes both ISK and CP.

This can give the new players a way to get WP as well as change the dynamic on the field as you wouldn't want them to group up but at the same time, immortals pose more of a threat.

Note: Their Deaths will not count towards the Clone Count.

I forgot about this. Why not the mortal soldiers (lore wise) are prisoners who were given a death sentence. Instead of allocating resources for their execution, they (the empires) send them to their deaths to fight in an ever escalating war. To help fund the war, they sell these inmates to Corperations.

Ok...so no Normals/Baseliners/Mortals imo

Lore reason 1 - Dropsuits: The Dropsuits we use now have largely been designed with our Combat Clone's Anatomy in mind...that being that our combat clones aren't designed to last all that long in the first place (They would still be able to use some of the First-Generation Stuff...and maybe some of the MLT Derpsuits...but largely:

So...without the benefit of our Reactors, Servos, Shield Generators, Etc...Normals (or Baseliners) would have a tough enough time on the Immortal's Battlefield.

Lore Reason 2 - Weapons: The weapons used by us immortal weapons is either purpose built for us, re-purposed starship/MTAC Equipment (For mining and/or Point Defense), or Scaled Up/"Overclocked"/Overcharged versions of what the Regular Soldiers Use. While there are Comercially available Plasma Rifles and Ion Pistols, the ones we use would cause unprotected human skin to burst into flames by just the heat emitted by the weapon, let alone what the impact of the charge would do. MLT Gear would be at the utmost High-End of what a Normal could use, if they where suicidal, or had access to extremely expensive military hardware (Spec Ops Suits that where the predecessors to our Dropsuits, or MTACs).

Lore Reason 3 - Technology and the Implications of Skill Points: Minimum SP Investment to use higher tiers of equipment may be just a convenient way to encourage progression throughout the games, but as others have mentioned earlier it implies that there is a huge amount of active management of our Suit and Weapon Systems. Weather through managing containment fields on the Plasma Centrifuges, or ensuring our suit's reactor doesn't go critical...there are implied to be several reasons why a certain amount of knowledge in a given subject is necessary.

Lore Reason 4 - Combat Clones: While the advantages of being immortal should be immediately apparent, the use of Combat Clones gives us a number of distinct advantages over normal. First off, the clones we use in battles are designed as generic, cybernetically enhanced, nearly 40k Space Marine sized super soldiers (Very Close in Size to the SPARTAN IIs)...designed to shrug off little things like fractured bones or arterial bleeding and continue fighting until the clone's nanites can no longer sustain them, or it suffers enough trauma to actually just give out...or the owner just isn't feeling this battle anymore xD. Even if the Dropsuits defenses fell, most of the combat clones would remain largely unaffected by any but the largest, most powerful munitions that Normals could bring to the battle.

Those are the big 4 lore reasons I could think of why you wouldn't have Normals running around our battlefield, suited or not...they just don't operate on the same scale as us Empyreans...

Drones (Rogue or Otherwise, Smart or Otherwise) would be a welcome addition if the scale of the battles could be increased...but I think I would rather just have more players in battles.