After a battle:
"...I lay in the canoe, vomited, coughed, and wept. It wasn't merely reaction. I was altogether sickened. Galaxy God - any God - must we kill through all time, until time ends when the disgusted universe collapses inward on us?" (pp. 115-116)
I would have said no, nothing will last until the end of time but consider the scenario in this novel. The universe - not just the galaxy - is full of intelligent species at every stage of development and they can all interact thanks to the space jump so, yes, there will be every kind of interaction and some of these interactions will be violent. Every stage of development will always be instantiated somewhere. There will always be violence but there will also be civilizations that move beyond it.
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