Weeks passed as the crew recovered aboard a coast guard cutter. News of their harrowing ordeal and the station's criminal sabotage rocked the nation. Public outcry demanded justice for corporate negligence endangering countless lives.
Stacy worked tirelessly aiding authorities build an ironclad case. With Ryan at her side decrypting further damning evidence, the perpetrators' scheme was laid bare. No more would cronyism shield murderers who valued profit over human lives.

At last the day of reckoning came. The crew gathered on the courthouse steps alongside supporters as the disgraced executives were arraigned. Dorian now walked strong thanks to Stacy's skills, fire rekindled in all who prevailed through fellowship.

News vans swarmed, microphones thrust towards Captain Jake as he stepped forward with a rare fire in his eyes. "These vipers tried silencing our station forever, leaving good men to die in the darkness they created," he said grimly. "But no force on Earth or in the deepest trench can break a crew standing united. And today, justice is served."

Inside, Stacy took the stand, recounting their harrowing ordeal with righteous composure. Her testimony laid bare falsified records, deleted reports, purged CCTV exposing coverups that almost succeeded.

The prosecutor brandished Ryan's decrypted files as damning evidence, eliciting gasps from the gallery. "These heartless profiteers saw station crews as expendable costs to be eliminated," he declared. "Through negligence, sabotage and fleeing the scene of the disaster they wrought, they are responsible for deaths that will haunt these waters forever."

After a grueling trial, the verdict was read at last. Guilty, on all charges. As the executives were led away in cuffs protesting fortunes lost, a cheer arose outside from the masses who had followed each revelation avidly.

Stacy emerged triumphant to a shower of flashing cameras. All who endangered lives to line pockets would face the music, she vowed. And from the depths of darkness, a great light had emerged through solidarity against the evil in men's hearts. Justice was done; but their work was only beginning.