Texture I'm curious about

[Retail_Male]

So, there's this supposed texture from one of the leaks which has always been quite interesting to me, yet I never see anyone mention it.
The texture refers to a "ship tentacle" and sort of resembles the blast pit tentacles from the first game, but the name makes it sound like it was intended for the borealis in some way?
I've only seen it mentioned on the cutting room floor page for HL2 and on a video where someone made a map featuring a model of the tentacle itself, so I'm wondering if this is really just a texture that people seem to have glossed over or if it's simply just untrue.
Apologies if this is a dumb question, I'm just not really in the know with this stuff sometimes and I feel like this texture has really interesting implications

[nvm]

No, it's true. There's an image in the 2023 leak. In my opinion, it was something like the Hydra of the 2000s.

[Soldier grug]

maybe a hydra but in its early development stages