Topic: It is all blood money
The primary way of way getting NIC from ratting is to kill bots and get plasma. Plasma is looser than solid substance taht probably flows throught the robots reactors. It probably perferm the mission of energy tranfererence within the bot. Thus it functions a lot like blood. The whole idea of the syndicate is to get energy to earth. It probably gains this energy from plasma and that is why you can even first place sell it to syndicate. The whole idea of the syndicate is to export Nian blood to Earth.
Talk about brutal imperialism. And it all sounds so eco and green when you phrase it as "Energy to Earth".