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To be honest, Paizo doesn't word things very clearly no matter what your native language is.
But yes, you would manifest all three, or more, with a single action.
Yes, as many manifestations as you have that you want to manifest and have the hands available to hold.
You wouldn't be able to manifest the solar weapon if your hands are full of other things. You could still manifest the flare and nimbus both with the Attune action.
If you later free up a hand or two and use the Attune action again, you could bring your solar weapon into existence.
I think you could also choose to only manifest some of the manifestations. For example in a social encounter, you could Attune and manifest only the nimbus so that you can protect yourself, but not be seen as being overtly hostile by having weapons readied.
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Another question is whether you can be disarmed of a solar weapon? Wording is it is an "extension" of yourself, but it doesn't speak of whether you can let go of it. By a dumb RAW, you could argue you could drop it (and then pick it up), or grab something with the hand *after* conjuring it; contrary to SF1 it doesn't say AFAICT that it is unattuned and disappears in those cases.
Besides finnicky arguments, it may be important in two situations:
* What happens if you are disarmed? Similarly, what happens if you take the Disarm property with it and crit fail your attempt, can you let go of your solar weapon?
* It doesn't actually say it occupies the hand. That's not gratuitous rules-lawyering: the iconic SF1 solarian had the blade on his forearm and the SF2 Pathra Solarian has a glowing hand, leaving their hands apparently free or free-ish. The issue may well arise: What happens if you really need that hand, e.g. to grab a potion? There's no action to un-manifest it, and if it's Attune, it's harder than dropping a physical weapon.
From FAQ:
Can manifestations like solar weapons be dropped or disarmed?
Yes. When dropped a solar weapon becomes part of your solar mote and must be manifested by using the Attune action when you want to use it again.
This is rather direct. Btw, if you got the free-hand trait on it, it can't be disarmed as the trait says so.
From the class:
When manifesting your weapon, it appears in a free hand of your choice. If it has the free-hand trait, it can manifest in any hand. Your solar weapon is a martial melee weapon.
Here we have a rule that references other rules. I bolded a very important part here. As it is a weapon, it follows the normal rules for weapons. I do think there should be "that requires one hand to wield" put there or the normal weapon rules should be changed to "weapons require one hand to wield, unless it states otherwise" or so to be 100% covered rules-wise instead of 70% covered and 30% implied. ;)