Originally Posted by Maladaptive

Healing node spawn is no good in Whaleship - you can only see a couple of spots to start off with due to the clouds, and therefore you get the healing nodes there before your first combat!

This is not true, I have had healing nodes spawn all over the map on whale missions. Even tho you cannot see the map to begin with the nodes still spawn at random empty locations, this includes shrine nodes and is easy to test and verify.