Lavender Revolution

The Lavender Revolution, also known as the Day of Steel, was a military coup on 30 April 1994 in Jesston that overthrew the authoritarian First Confederation, producing fundamental social, economic, demographic, and political changes through the Mobian Revolutionary Process, resulting in the Mobian transition to democracy and the beginning of the Second Confederation.

The revolution began as a coup organised by the Mobian Armed Forces (MAF), composed of military officers who opposed the regime, but it was soon coupled with an unanticipated, popular civil resistance campaign. The lavender revolution got its name from the fact that no shots were fired and from florist Marie Hughes offering lavenders to the soldiers when the population took to the streets to celebrate the end of the regime, with other demonstrators following suit and lavenders placed in the muzzles of guns and on the soldiers' uniforms. In Mobius, 25 April is a national holiday that commemorates the revolution.