I am swimming with the world's biggest fish, floating with latent power just a few metres away.

This suggests the workers themselves have considerable latent power: if they down tools, might they win concessions?

Standard symbology involves tattooing crests and runes onto one's flesh to draw out apparently latent power in the form of spells, and numerous underdeveloped planets make extensive use of it.

A gold torc makes a person with latent powers completely operant in those powers.

And it was there that he first had his latent powers unlocked.