Celestial Nighthawk

"Starlight is your guide. No vacuum will contain you."

- Armor Description

Celestial Nighthawk is an exotic Hunter helmet added in House of Wolves. This helmet converts the Gunslinger's Golden Gun into an all-or-nothing weapon, restricting it to a single but extremely powerful shot.

TIER 1

 * Ashes to Asset - Replenish Super energy when you kill an enemy with a grenade.

TIER 2

 * Inverse Shadow - Increased Super energy gained from killing minions of the Darkness.

TIER 3

 * Big Game - Golden Gun fires one shot, delivering 6x damage, while granting Keyhole for over-penetration.

Year 2 version
Celestial Nighthawk is a revamped exotic Hunter helmet added in The Taken King expansion. This helmet converts the Gunslinger's Golden Gun into an all-or-nothing weapon, restricting it to a single but extremely powerful shot.

Primary perks

 * Big Game: Golden Gun fires one shot, delivering 6x damage, while granting Keyhole for over-penetration.
 * Random Selection: Could be 1 of 4 perks.
 * Infuse: Consume a more powerful piece of Armor to boost the Defense value of this Armor.
 * Twist Fate: Changes the stats and upgrades available on this Armor.

Selectable perk 1

 * Random Selection: Could be 1 of 3 perks.
 * Random Selection: Could be 1 of 2 perks.

Selectable perk 2

 * Random Selection: Could be 1 of 3 perks.
 * Random Selection: Could be 1 of 3 perks.

Column 1 (Intrisnic)

 * Hawkeye Hack: Modifies Golden Gun to fire a single high-damage shot. Enemies eliminated by the shot explode and grant you Super energy

Lore
I'm on the ground, half inside Mav's Ward. Lucky for me, it's my head that's half in. The stars over my head are going out one at a time, but that could just be Taken goo blocking my sight.

This giant one-eyed nightmare we woke up is real unhappy to see us. This wasn't the plan—we just came here to rob him.

Luna's dry. The 'horn's dull. Mav's either laughing, or screaming for her life spraying lead everywhere. She's floating past Psions that won't stop splitting. STOP SPLITTING.

We're almost out of time. We have one shot. So I pull out the bird and give this sucker the finger. One red-hot glowing finger.

Trivia

 * During development, this helmet was named "ExoTac Angel Hunter" and its description was "Built from a Golden Age combat pilot sensorium, it orients the brain during sharp maneuvers." Its main perk originally increased weapon accuracy for a short time after jumping.
 * Celestial Nighthawk has historically been able to one-shot many bosses such as:
 * Oryx, the Taken King's Last Stand phase(Destiny 1)
 * Hashladûn, Daughter of Crota, pre-update that gave her health gates
 * Navôta, Eir Spawn
 * The Mad Warden
 * A phase of Sepiks Prime
 * The eyes of Celestial Nighthawk are known to light up when one's Super ability is fully charged.

List of appearances

 * Destiny:
 * House of Wolves
 * The Taken King
 * Destiny 2