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Orders of the conjugates of an algebraic prime number in its residue field

Of interest to me is the following question (it would be nice to find out what is known in its direction):

given a Galois number field $K/\mathbb{Q}$ and a completely and principally split prime number $$p = \prod_{\sigma \in Gal(K/\mathbb{Q})}{\sigma(q)},$$

where $q \in \mathcal{O}_K$ is a prime element, "how probable", in a loose sense, is that the images of the numbers $\sigma(q)$, $(\sigma \neq id)$ in the residue field $\mathcal{O}_K/q$ $(\cong \mathbb{F}_p)$ have orders of one's choice. For instance, can one always find "many" $p$ such that, for any choice of distinct elements ${\sigma_1, \sigma_2, ... \sigma_r \in Gal(K/\mathbb{Q})}$, the numbers $\sigma_1(q), ..., \sigma_r(q) \in Gal(K/\mathbb{Q})$ were quadratic residues in the field $\mathcal{O}_K/q$, and the remaining numbers $\sigma(q), \sigma \neq \sigma_j, j = 1, ..., r, \sigma \neq id$ - quadratic nonresidues?

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