I gave it a shot in the obvious way (copying + renaming the tech in it's own XML, adding in the screen for screens.str that would be needed, and copying, renaming, and editing the Ethicswnd.dxpack.). The first Xeno Ethics worked as intended, but my new Xeno Ethics 2 didn't work. I could research it and everything, but when it was done it simply showed my description then asked what I wanted to research next. I half expected to at least find the original Xeno Ethics screen again.

I'm presuming the code is made in a way where it's an If player researches "Xeno Ethics" Then display Ethicswnd.dxpack and so on. But it's not preserved. And yes, that's my primitive interpretation of coding

I know how to mess up with the English,Screens.str files, it's not a big deal but I think if you want to change the codes of "Xeno Ethics" you should serch in those two files, my mod of the jedi temple, you could only get it in "Good" Alignment and then after you reserch "Good and Evil" you can get to reserch "Jedi Temple" so, what that we can do is to reserch "Good and Evil" and then make another techs like Empire or New Republic. And what else we can do we can is to change the names of the alignments from Good Evil and Neutral to Empire, Rebellion, New Republic and with is we can change the Ethics thumbnails to the Empire simbol Rebellion simbol etc.
reply me to the post of Star Wars Mod Team or here.
Thanks.
-Master U

There's a few techs like Xeno Ethics and Universal Translator that are specifically hardcoded to do certain things, mainly because that's the easiest way to handle it. In GC3, I would like to do away with the hardcoded techs and introduce scripting, but that's far into the future.