Solar

One Thousand Voices — Ahamkara's Feast (Hunter)

Boss/miniboss beam-DPS + Orb-fed overcharged Super

✓ Manifest Solar · Heavy · No intrinsic champion

Weapon: One Thousand Voices (Fusion Rifle · Heavy · Solar) · Subclass: Gunslinger · Role: Boss/miniboss beam-DPS + Orb-fed overcharged Super Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Created 2026-06-16

Hold the trigger and a wall of Solar death pours out of the muzzle — no burst, no bolts, a continuous beam. OTV is the rare Heavy exotic that wants sustained uptime, so the whole Hunter kit exists to keep one buff live while the beam chews: Radiant. Star-Eater turns the Orbs the beam already spits into an overcharged Golden Gun you cash in between beam windows, then feeds you back into more beam. The fantasy is the grimoire line: you made a wish, and the wish screams.

The weapon

Ahamkara's Eye (intrinsic): "Charging this weapon unleashes a giant continuous beam of death."

Catalyst — Fall from Grace: "The weapon has become partially Taken. Detonations produce Taken energy that aggressively seeks out nearby targets and Blights them."

OTV charges like a fusion (1000ms charge), then instead of firing seven bolts it emits one sustained Solar beam for the magazine's duration — a hose, not a shot. Damage ramps the longer the beam holds the target, and the beam's impacts produce detonations. With the catalyst, those detonations spew homing Taken blight energy that seeks adds and debuffs them — turning a single-target boss laser into an incidental add-clearer and applying a damage-amp blight to nearby targets. It is Heavy ammo, Solar element, an Exotic Fusion Rifle that occupies the Power slot. Four-round mag, generous reserves for a Heavy: you get several full beam windows per brick.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Gunslinger (Solar)	Radiant is a flat weapon-damage buff that rides OTV's beam; the whole class makes Radiant trivially permanent.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	Precision hits make Orbs of Power — the fuel Star-Eater converts; the cash-in between beam windows.
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Instant reload (re-arm the beam mid-fight) + reposition to keep line on the boss.
Melee	Knife Trick / Lightweight Knife	Precision-kill → Radiant via Ember of Torches; keeps the beam buffed without a Super.
Grenade	Healing Grenade	Cure + the grenade is not the damage; survive the stand-still beam window.
Aspect 1	On Your Mark	Precision hits stack reload + Weapons stat ×10 → a second PvE damage multiplier on the beam, plus Restoration at max (9.7.0).
Aspect 2	Knock 'Em Down	Marksman Golden Gun gains increased duration → more precision shots → more Orbs → faster Star-Eater overcharge.

Fragments (4)

Ember of Torches powered-melee → Radiant for you + allies
Ember of Empyrean Solar weapon/ability final blows extend Radiant/Restoration — OTV kills are Solar, so the beam refreshes its own buff
Ember of Solace Radiant/Resto last longer
Ember of Singeing class-ability regen on scorch → faster Marksman's Dodge → faster reloads

Exotic armour — Star-Eater Scales (Legs): Feast of Light — "You gain additional Super energy from Orbs of Power you pick up. While your Super energy is full, picking up an Orb of Power overcharges your Super, causing you to gain a burst of healing when cast and a bonus to your Super damage. At maximum overcharge, you also gain an overshield."

Other two weapon slots:

Kinetic/Energy Special — a Solar Sniper or Fusion (e.g. a Solar sniper with Bait and Switch / Vorpal): the precision-Orb feeder and a backup single-target damage stick when OTV reserves run dry. Solar so Empyrean keeps Radiant alive off it too.
Primary — anything that makes Orbs and clears chaff (a Solar Pulse/Auto with a Siphon mod). Its job is body-count → Orbs → Star-Eater; OTV handles the orange bars.

Why this works (the mechanics)

OTV wants sustained uptime, and Radiant is the only buff that rides a sustained beam cleanly. Weapon-surge-style buffs and Radiant are flat weapon-damage multipliers that apply per-tick — a continuous beam re-checks the buff every tick, so a flat damage-amp is worth more on OTV than on a burst weapon. Gunslinger makes Radiant permanent (Knife Trick → Torches → Empyrean refreshes off the beam's own Solar kills → Solace extends it). The beam is never not buffed.
The Orb economy is self-licking. OTV's beam + catalyst detonations + the Marksman Super's precision Orbs flood the floor with Orbs of Power. Star-Eater eats them: below full it dumps bonus Super energy (Golden Gun comes back fast); at full it overcharges the next Super for a heal-on-cast, big damage bonus, and an overshield. So the beam pays for the Super, and the Super (Marksman precision Orbs) pays Star-Eater back.
On Your Mark is a stealth second multiplier on the beam. Its ten stacks add Weapons stat (9.7.0 PvE weapon-damage scaling) on top of Radiant — two independent damage sources from just landing precision hits, which a held beam does constantly. Restoration at max stacks keeps you alive through the stand-still window.
The catalyst turns a single-target laser into incidental control. Fall from Grace's homing Taken blight seeks adds off boss detonations and debuffs them — free add-pressure and a debuff while you stay locked on the boss. It's why OTV doesn't feel one-dimensional in a room full of trash.
Two damage windows that alternate, not compete. Beam the boss → reserves tick down → swap to overcharged Golden Gun (Star-Eater bonus) for a second nuke while OTV "reloads" via Marksman's Dodge and ammo economy → back to beam. The Super and the Heavy are staggered burst, doubling effective DPS uptime on a single priority target.

Stats & mods

Weapons 200 → Super 100+ → Health/Class for survival. Weapons is the obvious priority (it scales the beam directly and stacks with Radiant + On Your Mark); Super high because Star-Eater's whole loop is Super throughput. Archetype: target pieces favouring Weapons/Super (Powerhouse-style), legs locked to Star-Eater.

Mods:

Boots: Solar Weapon Surge ×2 (≈+17% Solar weapon damage — straight onto the beam) · Orbs of Restoration (orb pickup → ability energy; you make a flood).
Helmet: Solar Siphon (kills → Orbs, more Star-Eater fuel) · Ashes to Assets (Super on grenade kills) · Dynamo (Super on Marksman's Dodge near enemies).
Gauntlets: Heavy Handed / melee loaders as preferred · Firepower-style Orb generation if available.
Chest: Solar/Arc/Void Resistance for the stationary beam window · Heavy Ammo Finder if you want more OTV bricks.
Class item: Powerful Attraction (dodge vacuums Orbs into Star-Eater) · Reaper (dodge → next kill spawns an extra Orb).

Where it shines

Boss / miniboss DPS is the headline: hold the beam through a damage phase with Radiant + On Your Mark + Solar Surge ×2 + (when relevant) the overcharged Golden Gun cash-in. This is a raid/dungeon-boss and GM-miniboss deleter.
Add-dense rooms are handled by the catalyst, not by leaving the boss — blight detonations seek and debuff nearby trash while you stay on the priority.
Champion coverage — flag it. OTV is a bespoke Heavy exotic with no intrinsic Anti-Champion 2.0 stun (it isn't a standard fusion archetype on the stun table). It does not stun champions itself. Cover them with the kit: - Artifact — Stunning Fusion (ADS a Fusion/LFR briefly → payload stuns unshielded combatants → Unstoppable): run it on your secondary Solar fusion/LFR, since OTV's beam doesn't ADS-load a stun payload. - Artifact — Concentrated Forward Firepower is the OTV-native artifact mod: sustained Fusion/LFR/MG damage grants the beam bonus stability/range/AA — pure beam-uptime support. - Barrier/Overload: cover via your primary/special archetype or an artifact anti-Barrier/Overload mod. Golden Gun and the beam burn shields and bosses regardless of stun state.

Verify notes

Weapon facts confirmed against the manifest (`inspect_item.py` hash 2069224589): Solar, Exotic Fusion Rifle, Heavy slot, charge 1000ms, 4-round mag. Intrinsic Ahamkara's Eye and catalyst Fall from Grace quoted verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md` (L282) and `catalysts.md` (L108).
Beam damage ramp / per-tick scaling and exact reserve count are not in the manifest text — described from the stated "continuous beam" behaviour, not from numbers. Treat ramp specifics as in-game-verify.
Star-Eater Scales text quoted verbatim from `exotics.md` (L62). On Your Mark, Knock 'Em Down, Golden Gun: Marksman and the Ember fragments all quoted/confirmed from `aspects.md` / `fragments.md` / `perks.md` (L1330 confirms Marksman makes Orbs on precision hits — the Star-Eater fuel).
Champion coverage verified from `docs/encyclopedia/artifact.md`: Stunning Fusion (Unstoppable via ADS-loaded fusion payload) and Concentrated Forward Firepower (beam-uptime support) are real artifact mods. OTV carries no bespoke stun — explicitly flagged above, not fabricated.
Armour combat-mod names (Solar Surge, Siphon, Orbs of Restoration, Dynamo, Powerful Attraction, Reaper, Heavy Ammo Finder) come from standard 9.7.0 sandbox knowledge — the project's `mods.md` dump captured a different mod category (Traveler's Blessings), so these were not re-grepped against the manifest; names match in-game conventions, slot/availability is in-game-verify.
Set bonus: intentionally none — house rule, sets are garnish. Star-Eater is the driver; any Weapons/Super archetype legs work as the host.

Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)

Piece	Mod · cost	What it does
Helmet (9/10)	Solar Siphon 3e	Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
	Solar Siphon 3e	Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
	Dynamo 3e	Reduces Super cooldown when using your class ability near targets.
Arms (9/10)	Heavy Handed 3e	Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
	Firepower 3e	Your grenade final blows create Orbs of Power.
	Utility Kickstart 3e fill	When your class ability energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain class ability energy for each Armor Charge used.
Chest (6/10)	Void Resistance 1e	Reduces incoming Void damage from combatants.
	Solar Resistance 2e fill	Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants.
	Concussive Dampener 3e fill	Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
Legs (3/10)	Solar Weapon Surge 1e	Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
	Solar Weapon Surge 1e	Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
	Orbs of Restoration 1e	Picking up an Orb of Power grants a small amount of energy to your ability with the least energy.
Class Item (4/10)	Reaper 1e	Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
	Powerful Attraction 2e	Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.
	Bomber 1e fill	Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.

All 15 sockets used, 10 energy per masterworked piece; costs from the manifest. Core mods are the build's engine; fill mods are strong defaults — swap freely (chest resists should match the activity's damage types).