The Frankans in The Ethos Effect are obsessed with ethics, but in The Elysium Commission, they are neither technologically superior nor ethical. What happened?

This was something I frankly didn’t even notice because, in my mind, I was writing in different universes. The Frankans in The Ethos Effect are an ancient and ethical alien race; those in The Elysium Commission are merely another greedy and territorial bunch of humans. But… all things considered, I should have used another name in The Elysium Commission.