Reproduction oddities: pollen
One strange form of reproduction is pollen. Though everybody knows it and many are allergic to it, its not simply free floating reproduction cells as one might assume. The interesting thing is that pollen can live for days or even weeks away from its originating body. In a way pollen is a separate, smaller plant which produces the reproduction cells once it reaches a viable partner. Real life examples are only plants, for anything that could move by itself does not need such a complex manner of reproduction. But what if? What if, say, a plant norn would become embedded. A slider, all motion mutated out of his genes. Imagine he would split off a Nano Norn sized Nornling who would, in his stead, traverse the world to find a lady plant Norn to kisspop her. He would probably need to make a lot of the little Nornlings, and most would not make it. For immovable giants like gaia, this could be a sensible solution. The little pollenlings would be able to traverse the ark, to operate doors...
