diff --git a/src/core/streams/bkon.ts b/src/core/streams/bkon.ts
index 70fe83a3c..742fd728e 100644
--- a/src/core/streams/bkon.ts
+++ b/src/core/streams/bkon.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-import { writeFile } from 'fs/promises';
 import { times } from 'lodash';
-import { decode, encode } from 'lz4';
 import { ReadStream, WriteStream } from './buffer';
 
 enum ValueType {
@@ -281,23 +279,3 @@ export class BkonWriteStream extends WriteStream {
     this.ascii('BKON');
   }
 }
-
-const write = new BkonWriteStream();
-const data = (await fetch(
-  'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tresabhi/blitzkrieg-assets/dev/definitions/tanks.json',
-).then((response) => response.json())) as Value;
-write.bkon(data);
-const buffer = write.buffer;
-const read = new BkonReadStream(buffer);
-read.bkon();
-const lz4 = encode(buffer);
-
-writeFile('test.bkon', buffer);
-writeFile('test.json', JSON.stringify(data));
-writeFile('test.bkon.lz4', lz4);
-
-// now we attempt to read it
-writeFile(
-  'test.read.json',
-  JSON.stringify(new BkonReadStream(decode(lz4)).bkon()),
-);