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Spoiler, it's a swibble, and the reason that the DHOS dosen't know about them now, is because they are from the future.

> SWIBBLE: some kind of device to control the 'politically correct behaviour' of citizens. It is "an artifically evolved telpathic metazoan." It's purpose was to stop war by ensuring that everyone maintained the same ideology, that everyone agreed. The last war was fought between those who wanted swibbles and those who didn't. When the main character asks the wrongly directed time-traveled repairman what happened to those who lost the war, the answer is wonderfully simple, "Why," the repairman said gently, "the swibbles got them.":Service Call, vol 4.