However, I still can't say that's a bad thing. It's a potent force for change and improvement, whereas peace and stability can easily be a force for stagnation.

Keep in mind that the question specifically addressed peace between the empires; not an era of wholesale galactic peace (at least as far as I can tell from reading it). Even if the conflicts between the empires came to an end, there would still be battles to fight against pirates, Nation, and perhaps even nullsec capsuleer entities that get too uppity.

Pilot Blake, I'd just like to thank you for providing a perfect explanation of what's wrong with desiring complete political stability.

Yes, because the corollary to chaos is stagnation. Oh, wait. No, it is not.

They're opposite extremes. Constant Change. No Change.

The opposite to chaos is order. Not stagnation.

How about we abandon the idea of there being a hard-and-fast rule about what lies where on the spectrum that contains anarchy, hmm?

There's no algorithm for this. In all the centuries of human history, nobody's yet programmed an app that calculates to seven decimal places the precisely optimal ratio of chaos to whatever its opposite may be. We are, I hope, never going to turn to a computer and have it spit out a ream of figures saying that it will be optimal for our society if X many ships are destroyed for the loss of Y lives. I don't think such a calculable "sweet spot" exists.

The most any of us can do is act according to our best judgement.

Yes, Msr Lafisques, in this case by 'profit' I could have been said to have meant 'benefit'. In addition you are totally correct that I was referring to the social, economic and cultural health of the state as a whole. The sad truth is that there are plenty of narrow groups and individuals who profit from eternal war - at the ruinous expense of the body politic.

Madam Gesakaarin is a good example of this.

The quick answer is definitely yes.

-I'll add that I agree with some of the other posters that we're assuming you mean peace, rather than stability. The empire war is far too stable.

What we need now, is a full scale attack on Federation with support of Navy.
I'd say, just Navy attack on the Federation without support of capsuleers. From all directions and at once, go all YC110 on them, decapitate this snake, destroy both Senate, Presidential offices and headquarters of their navies. Then cut ALL the communication lines with gallentean worlds.
This will end the war for good.

What we need now, is a full scale attack on Federation with support of Navy.
I'd say, just Navy attack on the Federation without support of capsuleers. From all directions and at once, go all YC110 on them, decapitate this snake, destroy both Senate, Presidential offices and headquarters of their navies. Then cut ALL the communication lines with gallentean worlds.
This will end the war for good.

You had the chance to do that in 110. You didn't take it. You don't get a second chance, because they'll have prepared defenses precisely to prevent that sort of thing happening a second time.

Getting that far in the future would take a siege, something the State navy doesn't have the numbers for. Amarr does, though. But CONCORD won't allow that kind of escalation.

Setting aside the likelihood of stability in the cluster, I am curious as to how many capsuleers desire stability between the empires. It is not uncommon to see people communicate the pointlessness of the proxy conflict or the cultural and historical antagonisms. But acknowledging their pointlessness is not necessarily the same thing as desiring for those conflicts and antagonisms to cease. Nor does belief that the conflicts are important necessarily mean someone believes they should continue.

Setting aside those in nullsec that claim to not care about the empires, do you desire empire stability and relative peace?

You had the chance to do that in 110. You didn't take it. You don't get a second chance, because they'll have prepared defenses precisely to prevent that sort of thing happening a second time.

Getting that far in the future would take a siege, something the State navy doesn't have the numbers for. Amarr does, though. But CONCORD won't allow that kind of escalation.

We didn't take this chance, because we did believe gallenteans... again, when they have signed the treaty, that our Home Planet will become State territory. But gallenteans broke their word and treaty, as they always do.

Any peace treaty with gallenteans is just giving them an opening and opportunity to strike into less defended spot. Any peace solution is advantage to Gallenteans and disadvantage to Caldari.

We must not fall for this again, and don't take their "hand of peace", while they are hiding their second hand with a knife behind their backs.

... Don't raise to the bait, Claudia, its not worth it....