No one met Alexander's ideal; none of his companions, events showed, measured up to the standard of being kratistos. When Alexander died, he left detailed plans for grand schemes that would unify his empire and expand it, a mixed realm ruled by Macedonians, Greeks, and capable men of any nation loyal to his vision. The plans included a thousand warships, larger than any ever seen, for a naval expedition to North Africa, Sicily, and Spain; they described a road, equipped with ports and shipyards, stretching from Egypt to the Pillars of Heracles, where the Mediterranean met the Atlantic; six great temples would be erected in Greece and Macedonia; finally – the culmination of a vision of a mixed culture redefining power in the world – his plans called for new cities as homes for populations transferred from Asia to Europe and from Europe to Asia. As Diodorus reports, Alexander intended through intermarriages and homesteads, “to put the greatest continents into a partnership of harmony and love based on family ties.” Perdiccas presented all of these plans to the assembled army. The soldiers agreed with his judgment that they were too difficult and too expensive. Not a single one was carried out. The generals all proclaimed their support for Alexander's family, pledging to support his impaired brother, who would share the kingship with the child soon to be born to Alexander's pregnant wife, if the baby was male. Behind these empty words they were all frantically crafting their own schemes and promoting their own narrow interests.