Whats these cremators I have been hearing about?

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

In the thread below there are mentions about an enemy called a "cremator".

I have seached on google and these forums, and all I can find is more mentions: "The cremators burnt the bodies" and "I want the cremators in HL²: Aftermath". What are these cremators, and are there any sorts of pictures?

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=80031

 

[CREMATOR666]

You, sir, have been hearing about me.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Yeah it's that guy.

It's a creature/thing with a flame thrower that burns stuff. It's in the beta.

 

[Polaris]

Yeah it's that guy.

It's a creature/thing with a flame thrower that burns stuff. It's in the beta.

Flame thrower? I hear its chem spray or weapon called Immolator...

 

[Asknoone]

I think its more of an organic matter hose thing than a flamethrower.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

The idea is they 'cleaned up the city' by using their minature napalm gun thing to burn anything alive, dead material or aliens trying to get through the outer fences of the city. In raising the bar there is a picture of one in a long trench coat they look pretty menacing guys, i'd love them to be in aftermath. Theres also a propanganda poster with a cremator in saying 'keeping city 17 clean' or something along those lines. Also in Eli's lab there is a jar with a head in,which is in fact the head of a cremator. When you walk up to it in the period where Eli lets you take a look around he says 'Alyx brings in the weirdest things'. We don't really know much more.

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

You, sir, have been hearing about me.

...

I knew YOU would say something /me cremates the cremator with a lighter

 

[Chris D]

The Cremator, a Combine janitor of sorts, was to wield a large spray hose that dissolved organic matter from the streets of City 17 after unrest had been squelched. A Cremator head can be seen in the jar of formaldehyde in Eli's lab.

That's the official word on it.

And as for the things we've seen in the Aftermath screenshots:

"I thought the Stalker was a great monster; it was this kind of nullified amputated human that the Combine turned into a slave laborer. They rip out all the organs and run them on saline solution so they are easier to maintain. The Stalker idea came from wanting something that crept around the shadows and then lunged at you. We took a half-baked idea and turned it into something more horrific because the Stalkers are really the victims. When you face them, they are these crazed half-human things that you can't help but almost pity. I was hoping to put enough humanity into the things that it wasn't just a scary monster. Instead it was something that presented a moral dilemma every time you had to deal with it, which I think is a more interesting problme. It is more horrific to have to deal with an insane hostage than something that just wants to eat your brains."
-Ted Backman